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Why do migrants remit? Testing hypotheses for the case of Morocco

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Date
2015
Link to item file
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40176-014-0027-2
Dewey
Croissance et développement économiques
Sujet
International migration; Migrants’ remittances; Individual-level remittance data; Morocco
JEL code
F22; J61; D1; D91; O55
Journal issue
IZA Journal of Migration
Volume
4
Number
2
Publication date
2015
Article pages
20
Publisher
Springer
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40176-014-0027-2
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/14964
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Author
Bouoiyour, Jamal
Miftah, Amal
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
We use Moroccan data to study the determinants of international migrants’ remittances, testing the altruistic and welfare hypotheses. In particular, we analyze and assess what motivates migrants to send remittances back home. Our results lend support to the altruistic hypothesis suggesting that remittances are sent to households with low levels of welfare. Furthermore, the decision to remit is intensely associated to individual characteristics such as migrant income, gender and age. Likewise, remittances may be viewed as loan repayment if the migration costs were borne by the remittance-receiving family.

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