Remittances and Chain Migration: Longitudinal Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina
利用波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那的纵向数据，研究发现汇款显著提高了接收者的移民可能性，且资源更丰富的人更可能移民，揭示了移民和汇款的潜在负面影响。
Most of the literature on remittances focuses on their implications for the welfare of family members in the country of origin and disregards their role as facilitator of chain migration. We address this issue with the use of longitudinal data from Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the primary exporters of migrants and recipients of remittances in the world. We find that remittances have a significant positive impact on the migration prospects of their recipients. Better-endowed people are most likely to migrate, which highlights a potential negative implication of migration and remittances.