Time and money transfers: social networks and kinship in migration

Anna Nicińska ()

No 2018-05, Working Papers from Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw

Abstract: This study investigates transfers given by different donors to parents in need for help whose children migrated abroad. We develop a formal model of time and money transfers given to the elderly parents by kin and non-kin individuals taking into account the elderly’s social network and proximity between transfer’s donor and recipient. We find that migrant children specialize in money and non-migrant children in time transfers, provided that the difference in wages and proximity between siblings is substantial, and parental social networks do not compress. The dynamics in the size and composition of parent’s social network triggered by child’s migration affects the transfers received by parents not only from children, but also from other individuals. The overall effect on total time transfers might be positive even if donors decide to decrease their transfers of time, provided that the set of donors is enlarged.

Keywords: private transfers; care; time transfers; money transfers; kinship; family; social network; proximity; migration; ageing; elderly (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D02 D03 D19 D64 H31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18 pages
Date: 2018
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-age, nep-mig, nep-soc and nep-ure
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