Remittances in temporary migration: A theoretical model and its testing with the Greek-German experience

Glytsos, Nicholas P.

doi:10.1007/bf02708664

“…Large numbers of migrants return 'home' for various reasons each year. Glytsos (1988) reports that 85% of the 1 million Greeks, who migrated to West Germany between 1960 and 1984, returned home (p. 525). As for the case of Turks -in this article we pay particular attention to and report a study on return migration to Turkey -, approximately 1.5 million emigrants including rejected asylum seekers returned to Turkey between 1980(Turk Sanayicileri ve Isadamlari Dernegi [TÜSIAD], 2006.…”

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Return Migration

Künüroğlu¹,

Vijver²,

Yağmur³

2016

Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

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“…In this setup, the interest rates in home country and host country, the expectations about future exchange rate movements, and the degree of the migrants' risk aversion are assumed to determine remittances. Empirical evidence on the significance of these variables is rather mixed, Glytsos and Katseli (1986), Glytsos (1988Glytsos ( , 1997, see Table 1.…”

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“…If, in contrast, the inflation rate has a negative sign, then it means that the high inflation undermines the economic and political stability and therefore leads to a reduction in remittances. Both effects are considered in the following papers: Glytsos (1988), Katseli and Glytsos (1989) Elbadawi and Rocha (1992), Faini (1994), Lianos (1997), El-Sakka and McNabb (1999), Abdel-Rahman (2003), Aydas et al (2005), Alper and Neyapti (2006) and Shahbaz and Aamir (2009).…”

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Are Turkish Migrants Altruistic: Evidence from the Macro Data

Akkoyunlu

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2010

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract We investigate in this paper whether the stable pattern of remittances over the last three decades can be explained by the altruistic behaviour. This possibility is tested by means of cointegration analysis, which is applied to Turkish remittances from Germany over the period . A single cointegrating relationship is found between the remittances of Turkish workers in Germany and the real Turkish GDP per capita, the real German GDP per capita, the stock of Turkish migrants in Germany, the real exchange rate, and the government instability. The negative coefficient associated with Turkish income and positive coefficients on the real exchange rate and political instability support the claim that Turkish remittances from Germany are altruistically motivated. In addition, we find that the coefficient on the stock of Turkish migrants to be equal to one. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may

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“…However, previous studies have estimated return migration rates in Europe in the range of 70 to 85% (Böhning 1987 andGlytsos 1988). For countries or regions which will face significant populations of (older) returned migrants, a high prevalence of social isolation will have implications for the use and delivery of social services.…”

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Social Isolation, Loneliness and Return Migration: Evidence from Older Irish Adults

Barrett¹,

Mosca²

2013

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Remittances in temporary migration: A theoretical model and its testing with the Greek-German experience

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