(english) This paper fills the gap between individual selection models and collective approaches of migration. We build … a theoretical model in order to account for household-based migration decisions and derive its implications on migrant … selection. Assuming that the origin household maximizes a collective utility including earnings but also further remittances …

in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … by 5% to 11% and the Gini coefficient by about 5%. Households in the bottom quintiles are more dependent on remittances …

calculation of the impact of migration on the distribution of household income. Remittances, and especially foreign pensions …This article analyses the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algerian emigration …, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the effects of remittances on the distribution of household incomes. The …

This article analyses how a crisis impacts labor markets in origin countries through migration channels. For this … purpose, we develop a novel dynamic general equilibrium model with a focus on the interlinkages be- tween migration, the labor … an economic crisis to isolate the impact of migration on local unemployment. The impact of the crisis on education …

migration flows in the sub-region, second to estimate the determinants of migration behaviour across these countries and to … international migration in estimating returns to education yields upward biased estimates in three countries out of seven and …

migration in Egypt and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills … that migrants acquire before and during migration and the way these skills are used upon return. We find evidence of skill … make up for their lower education using their migration experience. Finally, we estimate the determinants of skill mismatch …

associations in Italy. First, the main socio-economic characteristics of the Senegalese migration are described. Second, the … socio-économique de la migration sénégalaise. Dans la seconde partie, la revue de littérature sur l …

This paper analyzes the respective impact of aid, remittances and medical brain drain on child mortality using panel … and cross-country quintile-level data on respectively 84 and 46 developing countries. Our results show that remittances … poorest countries. By contrast, medical brain drain is found to have a harmful impact on child mortality. Last, remittances …

In this paper, we investigate how powerful a mechanism migration is in the transmission of social norms, taking Mali … migration. We use an original household-level database coupled with census data to analyze the extent to which girls living in … variable approach to control for the endogeneity of migration decisions, we show that return migrants have a negative and …