We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally … and regionally representative of rural Mexico. Employing a Gini decomposition and controlling for whole household … equalizing change in the marginal effects of remittances was the highest. This provides supporting evidence for the migration …

We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally … and regionally representative of rural Mexico. Employing a Gini decomposition and controlling for whole household … equalizing change in the marginal effects of remittances was the highest. This provides supporting evidence for the migration …

New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory posits a complex relationship between migrants and household income … generation. This paper uses NELM and original survey data to examine the impacts of migration on income sources in Northeast … China. Migration is found to increase farm incomes but decrease self-employed incomes. …