Do family ties with those left behind intensify or weaken migrants' assimilation?

Oded Stark and Agnieszka Dorn

No 45, University of Tübingen Working Papers in Business and Economics from University of Tuebingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, School of Business and Economics

Abstract: Strong ties with the home country and with the host country can coexist. An altruistic migrant who sends remittances to his family back home assimilates more the more altruistic he is, and also more than a non-remitting migrant.

Keywords: Assimilation of migrants; Acculturation identity; Links with the home country; Altruism; Remittances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 D13 D64 F22 F24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-mig and nep-soc
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