This paper analyses the savings behaviour of natives and immigrants in Germany. It is argued that uncertainty about future income and legal status (in case of immigrants) is a key component in the determination of the level of precautionary savings. Using the German Socio-economic Panel data it...

Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. In the paper Latvian economic indicators before and after entering the EU are...

The paper aims to identify potential connections between migration and food consumption habits of Romanian immigrants in Andalusia, Spain and to study a series of factors that may contribute to the establishment of these connections. The analysis was based on a series of information obtained...

Joining the European Union big opportunities in the international markets have opened for Latvia. Paper purpose is to investigate influence of international integration processes on development of economy of Latvia. Latvia's incoming in EU increased the amount of received means from structural...

Drawing on a model in which utility is derived from consumption and effort (labor supply), we ask how the deportation of a number of undocumented migrants influences the decisions regarding labor supply, consumption, and savings of the remaining undocumented migrants. We assume that the...

This paper examines the link between intelligence and remittance levels using an exam to measure intelligence. With a survey of 117 migrant-remitters living in metropolitan Los Angeles, California, we find a negative correlation between the workers’ level of intelligence and the amount they...

This paper proposes a formal model of migration in which workers are heterogeneous and markets are stochastically correlated. We derive and characterize the optimal migration pattern. It is shown to depend on differences in expected earnings, costs of migration, income risks, and more...

Remittances are the largest source of overseas capital inflows to the Philippines accounting for 11 percent of GDP and more than 10 times the flow of FDI in 2011. Although the largest proportion of remittances are targeted for family support, the Philippine government would like to see overseas...

This paper investigates the direct and the indirect roles of migrant transfers in the saving behaviors of the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries during the period 1997-2018. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) panel estimation technique, the results based on the Pooled Mean...

Aid is a critical part of the economic development of states, especially developing states. Without donor states, many African countries would have experienced worse economic performances and increased rates of poverty which could worsen the current state of security in the subregion as well as...