Remittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are not only made by foreigners. Many naturalized migrants send money home as well. Here, we focus on international networks and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the...

In addition to employed and unemployed persons, other groups of the society, namely parts of the so-called non-economically active persons, also often enter gainful employment, although they are generally not taken into account in the theoretical and empirical determinations of a country's...