This paper examines the purpose of remittances using individual data of migrants in Germany. Particular attention is … paid to migrants’ savings and transfers to family members in the home country. Our findings indicate that migrants who … than permanent migrants. A similar picture emerges when considering migrants’ payments to family members abroad. The …

This paper investigates the determinants of migrants’ financial transfers to their home country using German data …. Moreover, while the effect of the household size on migrants’ transfers abroad turns out to be significantly negative … is the correct specification for the analysis of migrants’ savings and remittances rather than the conventional Tobit …

forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their off spring in … West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, fi rst generation migrants … and native West Germans that were comparable before the war perform strikingly diff erent. Migrants have substantially …