Migrants’ Choice of Remittance Channel: Do General Payment Habits Play a Role?

Summary: This paper investigates the determinants in migrants’ choice of payment channel when transferring money to relatives abroad. We analyze survey results on 501 migrants in the Netherlands, identifying five remittance channels: bank, money transfer operator, in-cash transfers via informal inte...

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Publicado en:World Development Vol. 62; pp. 213 - 228
Autores principales: Kosse, Anneke, Vermeulen, Robert
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. Oct2014
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