welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show …Recent theoretical work shows that precautionary savings increase in response to an increase in first-order risk. In … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes …

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 …

Despite the sharply increasing remittances in developing countries (especially in the AsiaPacific region), the … relationship between remittances and domestic investment in recipient countries has not been fluently evidenced. This paper aims to … fill the empirical gap in the Asia-Pacific region by investigating the impact of remittances on domestic investment with a …

Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) of 2012. We find that remittances have a positive impact on household savings and …We examine the effects of receiving remittances on household saving behaviour and expenditure patterns in Vietnam. We … tend to use remittances productively, with receiving households increasing their investments in human and physical capital …

This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of … cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes … contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article …