Showing 1 - 10 of 64
. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558124
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003525555
, remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408467
We elicit preferences for retirement timing in a laboratory experiment. Subjects make retirement choices under different payoff schemes that introduce variation in financial incentives. Testing ceteris paribus conditions of the financial incentive alone shows a considerable delay of retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538573
The current study examines individual decision making in the fi eld of personal finance. How do people arrive at a financial decision? A laboratory experiment investigates the way external information is integrated into the decision making process. The objective is to explore the link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514485
The current study examines individual decision making in the field of personal finance. A laboratory experiment investigates the way naïve advice influences the decisionmaking process. When advice is offered on demand, participants prefer expert over naïve advice. Although naïve advice is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566799
The current study examines individual decision making in the field of personal finance. How do people arrive at a financial decision? A laboratory experiment investigates the way external information is integrated into the decision-making process. Financial literacy shows to lower demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523264
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841616
großer Bedeutung. Hier lässt sich häufig beobachten, dass Migranten gleicher oder ähnlicher Herkunft gemeinsam in der … Hinweis darauf, ob diese ethnische Segregation förderlich oder hinderlich für die Integration von Migranten ist. Insbesondere … Segregation auf den Arbeitsmarkterfolg von Migranten analysiert. Dabei wird der Arbeitsmarkterfolg als Erwerbsbeteiligung zum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010473507
We examine how migrant workers impact firm performance using administrative data from the United States. Exploiting an unexpected change in firms' likelihood of securing low-wage workers through the H-2B visa program, we find limited crowd-out of other forms of employment and no impact on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014384341