Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34086 
Year of Publication: 
2006
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IZA Discussion Papers No. 2501
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We theorise that remittances to persons outside the households represent transfers to maintain social relations with relatives and friends and charitable remittances are expenditures which foster group membership. We estimate transfer functions as part of a larger expenditure system and calculate Engel elasticities for remittances to persons and to charities. We conclude that expenditures to enhance social relations with relatives and friends are a normal good for recent Asian immigrants and a luxury good for all other immigrants and Canadians. This fact indicates strong cultural differences in the remittance behaviour of the population groups included.
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Working Paper

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