Abstract
This chapter focuses on the Dominican Republic as a remittance receiver. The data for this chapter come from the Puerto Rican and Dominican samples of the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP). The communities chosen for this study represent a broad range of population sizes, regions, ethnic compositions, and economic bases in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The sample size varied between one hundred and two hundred households for each community. Each community was enumerated on a house-by-house basis, and households were selected using simple random sampling. Overall, the Puerto Rican sample is more female, older, less likely to be single, more educated, less likely to be engaged in agricultural labor, and more likely to be born in the fifty United States than the Dominican sample. Furthermore, Puerto Ricans tended to move abroad earlier, remain on the U.S. mainland, have more migratory experience, and spend more time abroad than Dominicans.
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