savings and remittances. JEL codes: O12, O33, G20, R23 …

Analysis of a poll of nine of the major remittance recipient countries in order to understand the market of remittances …

Analysis of a poll of nine of the major remittance recipient countries in order to understand the market of remittances …

This paper presents a model of migrant behavior in which remittances are treated as both a consumption transfer to … households and as an alternative savings mechanism for migrants. This approach leads to the implication that migrants' remittance/savings … behavior should be affected by the relative rate of return on their savings and on the savings of their remittance receiving …

other savings mechanisms. Enhanced control over home country savings does not affect remittances sent home. © 2015 The …We implemented a randomized field experiment that tested ways to stimulate migrants’ savings in their origin country … offered U.S.-based migrants bank accounts in El Salvador, randomly varying migrant control over El Salvador–based savings by …

naturalization has caused significant reductions of savings and remittances for immigrants as a whole, in the magnitude of 13% and 29 …This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about … savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it is shown that, although immigrants have lower levels of savings and are …

We estimate the impact of worker remittances on savings, taxes, and public expenditures on education, all as a share of … GDP, for two samples of poor and less poor countries. Remittances increase the savings ratio in both samples. Savings have … expenditure on education in both samples. When remittances increase, in the richer sample, governments raise less tax revenues but …