Skills and remittances. The case of Afghan, Egyptian, and Serbian immigrants in Germany.

Autor/in	Vadean, Florin
Institution	Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut
Titel	Skills and remittances. The case of Afghan, Egyptian, and Serbian immigrants in Germany. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Qualifikation und Heimatüberweisungen. Afghanische, Ägyptische und Serbische Einwanderer in Deutschland.
Quelle	(2007), 28 S.; 216 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	HWWI research. Paper. 03-09
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
ISSN	1861-504X
Schlagwörter	Einbürgerung; Familiennachzug; Auslandsinvestition; Geld; Investition; Sparen; Mittlere Berufsausbildung; Niedrig Qualifizierter; Qualifikation; Qualifikationsniveau; Arbeitspapier; Überweisung; Arbeitnehmer; Ausländer; Hoch Qualifizierter; Afghanistan; Herkunftsland; Jugoslawien; Ägypten
Abstract	"This paper aimed to provide insight about the way in which the education and skill level of migrants affects the remittance habits, purpose, and use, in the context of Afghan, Egyptian and Serbian immigrant groups in Germany. The information about the remittance patterns of the immigrants was collected through guided interviews with key stakeholders of the immigrant groups, identified by a snowball sampling technique. The socio-economic structure of the three immigrant groups differs significantly, with the Afghan immigrants being on average low skilled, the Serbian immigrants middle skilled and the Egyptian immigrants high skilled. This allowed, besides looking at the remittance behaviour in each group with respect to skills, to have a comparative perspective on the remittance behaviour among the immigrant groups. While the conclusion whether skilled migrants remit more or less compared to low skilled ones is not straightforward, this study provides evidence that the skill level significantly affects the purpose of remittances towards more productive investment. Whilst low skilled migrants mainly remit for securing the consumption need of their family members, the remittances of middle skilled migrants are more often used for investment saving (e.g. buying of real estate or bank account deposits), and high skilled migrants make also productive investments in their home countries. The migrant's endowment with human capital often assures that he/she earns more money than he/she and his/her family require for meeting their basic needs and money is left for savings and investments. Moreover, the skills and expertise accumulated through education and work experience are also very important for the implementation of investment projects. However, investments remittances are strongly conditioned by the investment climate in the home country." Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Befragung; Querschnitt. (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2007/4