Remittance Behaviour of Forced Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Florence Arestoff, Mélanie Kuhn-Le Braz and El Mouhoub Mouhoud ()
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Florence Arestoff: LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DIAL - Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme

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Abstract: This paper looks at the determinants of South-South remittances. An original dataset of African migrants living in Johannesburg is used. As South Africa attracts both economic and forced migrants, we focus on the impact of the reason of emigration (violence versus economic concerns) on migrants' remittance behaviour. On the extensive margin, the results show that leaving a home country for reasons of violence decreases the probability of remitting to the home country. On the intensive margin, transferred amounts do not differ according to whether the migrant was forced to migrate or not. When the migrant has decided to remit, it is more his/her current conditions in the host country and traditional factors (income, education, sex, etc.) that determine the amounts transferred. Our results are robust when restricting the definition of forced migration.

Keywords: remittance; international migration; forced migration; South Africa; political environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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Published in The Journal of Development Studies, 2016, 52 (6), ⟨10.1080/00220388.2015.1098628⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1098628

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