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Remittance Behaviour of Forced Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa

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  • Florence Arestoff

    (LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DIAL - Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme)

  • Mélanie Kuhn-Le Braz
  • El Mouhoub Mouhoud

    (LEDa - Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, DIAL - Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD))

Abstract

This paper looks at the determinants of South-South remittances. An original dataset of African migrants living in Johannesburg is used. As South Africa attracts both economic and forced migrants, we focus on the impact of the reason of emigration (violence versus economic concerns) on migrants' remittance behaviour. On the extensive margin, the results show that leaving a home country for reasons of violence decreases the probability of remitting to the home country. On the intensive margin, transferred amounts do not differ according to whether the migrant was forced to migrate or not. When the migrant has decided to remit, it is more his/her current conditions in the host country and traditional factors (income, education, sex, etc.) that determine the amounts transferred. Our results are robust when restricting the definition of forced migration.

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  • Florence Arestoff & Mélanie Kuhn-Le Braz & El Mouhoub Mouhoud, 2016. "Remittance Behaviour of Forced Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa," Post-Print hal-01874596, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01874596
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1098628
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