income recipients and reduces labor income in host regions in the short run. In contrast, in sending countries, capital … remittances as well as an increase in labor income, although income from capital might decline. Second, in a hypothetical scenario … with lower South-South migration, the implied losses of remittance income could lead to substantially lower welfare in …

effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a … separable class, and at percentiles. It also lends itself to a decomposition procedure, whereby the overall pattern of income …

This paper argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality. In the … leisure. The paper shows that reduced-form labor supply elasticities allow one to isolate the components of income due to … productivities versus preferences in the United States. Estimates from the literature imply productivities drive most of income …

being conducted by the World Bank's Development Research Group at the time of writing this paper. The availability of the …

Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source …

structural route of the past, through manufacturing, to higher income, but with appropriate investments, they can develop high …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration by comparing the …