The volatility effect of diaspora’s location

Eric Rougier

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Abstract: Remittances can transmit volatility from host to home countries for some common patterns of diaspora's geographical distribution. In a migration portfolio model, the overall risk of volatility of any set of diaspora location is decomposed into a contagion and a concentration risks: a diaspora located in more volatile destinations induces a higher contagion risk, while a diaspora located in few destination countries increases the concentration risk. A series of estimations on a large panel of developing countries over 1995–2015 provide evidence for these two risks. Estimation of a structural model confirms that the geography of diaspora has an indirect impact on the origin country's aggregate instability through remittances.

Keywords: Migration Remittances; Diaspora; Fluctuations; Income Volatility; Portfolio Choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in The World Economy, 2019, 42 (6), pp.1796-1827. ⟨10.1111/twec.12773⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/twec.12773

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