کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
992022 935699 2009 11 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Informal Insurance Arrangements in Ghanaian Migrants’ Transnational Networks: The Role of Reverse Remittances and Geographic Proximity
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Informal Insurance Arrangements in Ghanaian Migrants’ Transnational Networks: The Role of Reverse Remittances and Geographic Proximity
چکیده انگلیسی

SummaryRisk pooling literature argues the need for geographic proximity to ensure the functioning of informal insurance arrangements. This paper investigates whether these arrangements exist between migrants and their network members back home and, if so, how they work in the absence of geographic proximity. Analysis of a simultaneous matched sample of migrants in the Netherlands and network members in Ghana reveals the existence of reverse remittances. These remittances show that there is risk pooling between migrants and network members. The paper elaborates on the institutional arrangements that make such a system possible.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: World Development - Volume 37, Issue 6, June 2009, Pages 1105–1115
نویسندگان
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