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-country savings does not affect remittances sent home by migrants …We implemented a randomized field experiment that tested ways to stimulate savings by international migrants in their … treatment groups. Migrants offered the greatest degree of control accumulated the most savings at the partner bank, compared to …
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welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show …Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes …
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is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A …. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants' transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative …
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the contemporaneous choice of savings and remittances. Moreover, when comparing the saving profiles of both natives and …This paper investigates the saving behavior of migrants in the UK across different dimensions, i.e., comparing … temporary versus permanent migrants and migrants versus natives. Established theoretical predictions show that migrants save …
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differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances are taken into account. Fixed effects estimations of … the determinants of immigrants' savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …, indicating deficits in the long-term integration of permanent migrants in Germany. -- savings ; migration …
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differences between temporary and permanent migrants.Our findings reveal significant differences in the savings rates between … foreign-born and German-born individuals. These differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances …This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to …
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is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants' savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …This paper investigates the determinants of migrants' financial transfers to their home country using German data. A …. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants' transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative …
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differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances are taken into account. Fixed effects estimations of … the determinants of immigrants' savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …This paper examines the relative savings position of migrant households in West Germany, paying particular attention to …
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