Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Ziesemer, Thomas
Author-Email: ziesemer@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT, Maastricht University
Title: Remittances, lagged dependent variables and migration stocks as determinants of 
	 migration from developing countries  
Abstract: In regressions for net immigration flows of developing countries we show 
	 that (i) savings finance emigration and worker remittances serve to make 
	 staying rather than migrating possible until a certain value, beyond 
	 which the opposite holds; (ii) lagged dependent migration flows have a 
	 negative sign even in the presence of migration stock variables; (iii) 
	 migration stocks have S-shaped effects: at sufficiently low values 
	 higher migration stocks support emigration; beyond a threshold value 
	 they support net immigration before they possibly support emigration 
	 again after a second threshold value.
Classification-JEL: F22, O15
Keywords: migration, remittances
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2009
Number: 007
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2009/wp2009-007.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2009007