Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey

• Published in: IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc
• Main Authors: Batista, Catia, Umblijs, Janis
• Format: Paper
• Language: English
• Published: St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 01.01.2014
• Subjects: Noncitizens; Remittances

Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin Area, I...