aims at analysing the impact of migration on rural poverty and inequality in Kosovo. It draws on the 2009 nationally …The economic wellbeing of a large number of rural Kosovar families depends heavily on migrants' remittances. This paper … Propensity Score Matching. We find that remittances have no impact on the extremely poor, but lift around 40% of migrant …

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 …

diffusion hypothesis. A fixed effects analysis of the effects of migration and remittances on in inequality at the village level … individuals in the village inequality measure, concealing the effects of migration and remittances on income distribution at the …We analyze how migration prevalence and remittances shape income distribution using novel panel data that is nationally …

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 …

The general objective of the study is to assess the impact of Women Migrant Workers’ (WMWs) remittance in poverty …

This study examines the potential of remittances for promoting economic growth and reducing poverty in Asian countries … that a 10% increase in remittances decreases the poverty gap by about 0.7–1.4%. The paper also explores the robustness of … using data for more than 20 countries in the region for 1988–2007. The results indicate that remittances positively affect …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a … strong decline in child poverty and poverty amongst single parent households. In the latter group, a third of the headcount … poverty reduction (and half of the reduction in the depth of poverty) is on account of the very large incentive effect of …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of …