Transfer behavior in migrant sending communities

Migration is likely to change established private transfer systems in poor countries. * In rural Kyrgyzstan, households with migrants abroad help others with money. * They receive labor assistance from others. * This may be a sign of reciprocal, but asymmetric (money vs. labor) transfers. * This is potentially good news for policymakers. We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private tr... Mehr ...