Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1790:
Identifying the Motives of Migrant Philanthropy
Matthias Lücke, Toman Omar Mahmoud and Christian Peuker
Abstract: Donations by migrants to community projects in their home
countries (“collective remittances”) help to provide local public goods and
may promote economic development. We draw on the literatures on migrant
remittances and on philanthropy in general to identify possible motives for
collective remittances. We test the empirical relevance of these motives
using micro-level data from Eastern Europe. Our results suggest a mix of
motives including altruism, exchange, and concern about future membership
rights in the community of origin. We also find that communities with a
high degree of ethnic fragmentation and a wide dispersion of migrants
across destination countries are less likely to receive collective
remittances
Keywords: international migration, development, diaspora, collective remittances, philanthropy; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: F22,; F24,; H41,; O12; (follow links to similar papers)
28 pages, August 2012
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