Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/222445 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 609
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Abstract: 
This article reviews the economic literature on social remittances. Unlike financial remittances, which are flows of cash or goods sent by migrants to their origin countries, social remittances refer to economic, social, political attitudes, behaviours and norms that are transmitted through migration. Although economists are newcomers to this literature, they have contributed to advancing knowledge on the causal effects of migration on social remittances. The evidence reviewed in this article unanimously points at the important role played by international migration in the transfer of norms. However, host countries matter greatly in explaining the types of attitudes and knowledge that are transferred back to countries of origin. Overall, there are still clear gaps in our understanding of social remittances that future research would need to address to enable us to appreciate better the mechanisms through which norms are transferred.
Subjects: 
Remittances
international migration
norms
knowledge
selectivity
endogeneity
JEL: 
D72
F22
J10
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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