In this study, micro implications of the remittances are examined based on the data from the 1996 Turkish International Migration Survey (TIMS-96), a part of comprehensive study of Eurostat and the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Results of the study imply that migrant saving–remittances are used for both consumption and investment in Turkey. Pattern of expenditures from remittances suggests that for 12 per cent of the households about 80 per cent used remittances to improve their standard of living. Considering the variation by regions, it is seen that households in lessdeveloped regions spent more on daily expenses than those in developed regions. This suggests that daily expenses of households in less developed regions mostly depend on remittances received by households. Moreover, remittances have a positive impact on household welfare; households receiving remittance are found to be better off than those of non-remitting households. This suggests that migration and remittances have positive indirect effects on incomes in emigrant households. A considerable part of the relevant literature argues that remittances are mostly spent on consumption, housing and land and are not used for productive investment that would contribute to long–run development. However, market linkages transmit the impacts of remittances from the households receiving them to others in the local, regional or national economy. Although emigration is rarely a solution to the problems of national development, these direct and indirect income effects of remittances potentially have important influences on production, income inequality and poverty at least on local level.