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 …

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 …

This paper investigates dynamic effects of remittances on households’ poverty and income distribution. Using state … remittances. Our results suggest that remittances alleviate both absolute and relative poverty levels and lead to a marginal … increase in inequality in the case of Kosovo. We further demonstrate that – although poverty reduction effects are stronger in …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … wealth inequality is shown to be monotonically reduced along the time-span, the short- and the long-run impacts on income …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through …

means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed … lower the costs for future migrants, which can in turn lower inequality. This paper shows both theoretically and empirically …-shaped relationship between emigration and inequality in rural sending communities in Mexico. After instrumenting, we find that the …