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🔍Using a nationally representative dataset and qualitative interviews, IAMO colleagues find that while remittances help cover basic needs, they don't lead to increased spending on business, health, or education in #Kosovo. Migrants control "earmarked" funds for housing and conspicuous consumption.

Janine Pinkow Läpple presented insights from her #IAMO research on return migration on 23 November 2023, in Zagreb. The event entitled “Croatia's (hidden) potential – Highly skilled, young remigrants as agents of change” was organised by the KAS and the Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar