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Discussion Papers In Economics And Business. 2013, 14-05, p. 1-35

Motivation behind remittance from migrants : Evidence from Albania

Shimamoto, Daichi

Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University

英語

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2013-02

http://www2.econ.osaka-u.ac.jp/library/global/dp/1405.pdf

In Albania, remittance has been an important factor for the country’s economic growth since the collapse of the country’s communist regime in the early 1990s. In this paper, I investigated why migrants send remittance to their parents household. In the analysis, I considered four remittance motivations:altruistic, exchange, insurance, and inheritance motivations. To control sample selection of migration, I apply the Heckman sample selection model. The results suggest that migrants in Albania are driven to remit owing to a combination of altruistic, exchange, and inheritance motivations. Further, migration destination influences remittance amount, which implies that not only the local labor market and exchange rate at the final destination but also migration motivation factors affect remittance amount.

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Motivation behind remittance from migrants : Evidence from Albania

Shimamoto, Daichi

Graduate School of Economics and Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University

英語

2013-02

Discussion Papers In Economics And Business

14-05

1

35

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/26724

http://www2.econ.osaka-u.ac.jp/library/global/dp/1405.pdf