An Analysis of Determinants of Filipino Migrants’ Remittances

정지아 (JEAAH JUNG); 조창현 (Chang-Hyon Jo)

An Analysis of Determinants of Filipino Migrants’ Remittances

Journal of Regional Studies and Development
Abbr : JRSD
2012, 21(1), pp.97-127
Publisher : Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development: IPAID
Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Regional Studies in general > Comparative / Statistical Regional Studies

JEAAH JUNG ¹, Chang-Hyon Jo ²

¹동국대학교
²연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research is to analyze determinants of remittance amount sent by Filipino migrants in the United States and Saudi Arabia for finding immigrant policy implications in the host and the home countries. Based on the transnationalism perspective, we tried to verify a more integral view of determinants of migrant’s remittances for effective future policy making. Through OLS regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis about Filipino migrants, we found that there exist differences in correlation of migrants’ individual, family characteristics, socio-economic, structural, and regional factors, with the amount of remittance from the host country (the United States or Saudi Arabia). Conclusively, this research provides an example of comprehensive understanding of remittance behavior, as well as prompting the need for redistribution policy by the home country on social inequity with remittances, and the need of policy attention by host countries on immigrants’ family relations in home countries.

KEYWORDS

Migrant Remittance, Transnationalism, International Migration, Poverty, Transnational Family

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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