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  • Title: Migration and socio-economic aspects of homeward remittances in Nigeria.
    Author: Odaman OM.
    Journal: Migr World Mag; 1988; 16(1):16-20. PubMed ID: 12342179.
    Abstract:
    The author identifies some of the socioeconomic factors affecting migrants' remittance behavior. This study has a genesis in another study by Odaman--Migration and Rural Development: An Empirical Investigation of Migrants Participation in Rural Community Development in Nigeria; and draws extensively from the data used therein. The sample includes 1491 migrants chosen using the systematic random sampling technique. Age, sex, residence marital status, education, occupation, and income were examined in an effort to identify factors affecting migrants' remittance behavior. Some of the study's conclusions follow. 1) Income was not found to be a significant factor, although other income-influencing factors such as education and occupation are. 2) Being male, single, or a wage earner and having a rural origin are assurances of higher remittances. 3) Out-migration is encouraged by the rural households as a strategy to combat rural poverty by tapping urban wealth. 4) Inflation of goods and rents, poor sales, irregular pay and deductions, large numbers of dependents, and fear of unsafe delivery militate against remittances to origin. 5) Where the rural dwellers must meet the obligation of paying fees and levies to maintain existing social services, the tapping of urban resources becomes inevitable. Remittances have become important for national economic survival. 6) This study advocates that the governments should help to lower inflation of rents and prices of goods, provide efficient postal systems to deliver remittances to recipients, ensure regular payment of wages, and minimize deductions from workers' pay. Removing these constraints encourages remittances that in turn compensate for the limited public expenditures on rural development.
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