This paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last … of migration and remittances (that is, a .private safety net. built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

a relationship between poverty and emigration, and that remittances lessen inequality. On the basis of Latin American … and Mexican data, this chapter intends to show that for Mexico, the exchange of migrants for remittances is among the … lowest in Latin America, that extreme poor Mexicans don't migrate although the moderately poor do, that remittances have a …

these remittance flows affect poverty andinequality in migrants’ home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage … shocks, aggregate poverty rates decline even in households withoutmigrant members. However, we find no strong evidence of …

In this paper we use Living Standard Measurement Survey (2005) to analyze the effects of remittances on the labor … utility function indicate a positive effect in average of the remittances’ receipt on the preferences for leisure for both … increase in remittances on hours worked, we find that non-migrant substitute income for leisure only in case they are wage …

large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by …

In this paper, we study the effect of remittances on the living standard of families living in Kosovo using detailed … regressions, we find that remittances significantly improve the living standard of the recipient households. The benefit of … remittances is much higher among households characterized by low levels of consumption, especially when the possible endogeneity …

Using a 2006 household survey in Mali, we compare current poverty rates and inequality levels with counterfactual ones … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to …

There are few studies of the social and economic consequences of remittances from migrant workers on poverty and … inequality in their home country until recently, especially in Haiti. The known amount of remittances sent to Haiti by the … paper, we provide some elements that can help understand what are the consequences of these gifts on poverty and inequality …

The paper studies the effects of international remittances on poverty and inequality in Ethiopia using an urban … household survey from 2004. In order to identify the effects of remittances on poverty and inequality, counterfactual … inequality does not change. The head count, the poverty gap and the squared poverty gap ratios decreased by 2.5%, 1.1% and 0 …