What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad … effects on receipt of remittances than net earnings potential of households in the country of origin. Second, the receipt of …

Workers’ remittances have become the second largest source of net financial flows to developing countries. However, the … main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the importance of altruistic versus … that altruism is important for remitting, as the GDP differential between sending and receiving countries is positively …

the migrant and remittances for private consumption by the migrant's family even in the complete absence of altruism on …In the absence of altruism, there is no obvious reason why a migrant should remit part of his income to his family for … families who do not return those investments in order to prevent their own possibilities of receiving future remittances and …

In the last two decades remittances have gained interest due to their large size. For several developing countries … remittances constitute a large portion of their GDP and sometimes exceed FDI. While FDIs are usually profit driven, it is not … clear what the driving force behind remittances is. This paper presents a simple theoretical model of migrants' remitting …

We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by … the altruistic behaviour. This possibility is tested by means of cointegration analysis, which is applied to Turkish … remittances from Germany over the period 1962-2005. A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of …

I investigated whether migration is interrelated with trade, aid and remittances so that any policies that consider … trade, aid and remittances also affect the decision to migrate. We developed and estimated an empirical model of Turkish … migration to Germany and tested the model for the 1969-2004, using the cointegration technique. A single cointegrating vector is …

impact on the cointegration properties in empirical modelling, the monetary model in Coenen & Vega (2001) based on fixed …

countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food …

after the German reunification, cointegration is found between both variables suggesting a slightly positive relationship. …

The literature has focused on motives to explain remittance behavior. But as nonanonymous transfers, remittances are … motives involving worker-household pairs. We find that altruism dominates the exchange motive among overseas workers who are …