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Abstract
"This paper examines the net effects of migration and remittances on income distribution. Potential home earnings of migrants are imputed, as are the earnings of non-migrants in migrant households, in order to construct no-migration counterfactuals to compare with the observed income distribution including remittances. The earnings functions used to impute migrant home earnings are estimated from observations on non-migrants in a selection-corrected estimation framework which incorporates migration choice and labor-force participation decisions. For a sample of households in Bluefields, Nicaragua, migration and remittances increase income inequality when compared with the no-migration counterfactual." excerptKeywords: Americas; Central America; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Human Resources; Income; Income Distribution; Inequalities; Labor Force; Latin America; Microeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Nicaragua; North America; Population; Population Dynamics; Remittances; Socioeconomic Factors
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Year: 1998 PMID： 12293843 DOI： 10.1016/s0304-3878(98)90038-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Dev Econ ISSN： 0304-3878