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Emigrants’ visit home and remittance inflows nexus

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  • Faruk Balli
  • Thi Thu Ha Nguyen
  • Hatice Ozer Balli

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Immigrants have created better living standards by emigrating, and they also contribute to their homeland in one of two ways: by visiting as tourists or by sending remittances back home. In this paper, we examine the nexus between these two crucial channels: remittance inflows and emigrants' visits home. We model the emigrants' visits back home and show that remittances inflows per emigrant have a strong impact on emigrants' visits home. However, the relationship is mixed among different regions. For emigrants from Africa and Latin America and Asia, the remittances have a negative impact on home visits, indicating that emigrants send more money and skip visiting their homes subsequently. For emigrants from MENA, there is a significant positive impact of the remittance inflows on home visits.

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  • Faruk Balli & Thi Thu Ha Nguyen & Hatice Ozer Balli, 2023. "Emigrants’ visit home and remittance inflows nexus," Tourism Economics, , vol. 29(5), pages 1405-1411, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:toueco:v:29:y:2023:i:5:p:1405-1411
    DOI: 10.1177/13548166221098619
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