We enquire empirically how migrants' desire to send remittances back home fosters integration at destination. Starting from a model by Stark and Dorn (2013) in which the aspiration to remit is shown to induce migrants to acquire costly host-country specific social and human capital in order to obtain higher income, we measure migrants' integration effort by social participation. Our results confirm the theoretical model.
Does the desire to remit foster integration? Evidence from migrants in Spain / C. Falco, K. Gobel. - In: ECONOMICS LETTERS. - ISSN 0165-1765. - 137:(2015), pp. 131-134. [10.1016/j.econlet.2015.10.013]
Does the desire to remit foster integration? Evidence from migrants in Spain
C. FalcoPrimo
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2015
Abstract
We enquire empirically how migrants' desire to send remittances back home fosters integration at destination. Starting from a model by Stark and Dorn (2013) in which the aspiration to remit is shown to induce migrants to acquire costly host-country specific social and human capital in order to obtain higher income, we measure migrants' integration effort by social participation. Our results confirm the theoretical model.
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