McCann, Philip; Poot, Jacques; Sanderson, Lynda - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008
replenishment of the depleted relationship capital with family and friends back home, but these trips incur travel costs and … foregone earnings. Given plausible assumptions about the depreciation and replenishment of home country relationship capital, a … steady-state level of average maintained relationship capital implies that the optimized travel frequency is inversely …