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 … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

This paper investigates the impact of remittances on poverty and inequality in Nigeria. In contrast to the existing … impact of remittances for households at different levels of the conditional expenditure distribution. Furthermore, in tracing … this heterogeneous impact, we are able to address the effect of remittances on poverty and inequality simultaneously in a …

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

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

in the absence of migration and remittances. With proper hypotheses on migrants and a selection model, we are able to … impute a counterfactual income for households currently receiving remittances. We show that remittances reduce poverty rates … by 5% to 11% and the Gini coefficient by about 5%. Households in the bottom quintiles are more dependent on remittances …

calculation of the impact of migration on the distribution of household income. Remittances, and especially foreign pensions …This article analyses the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algerian emigration …, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the effects of remittances on the distribution of household incomes. The …

calculation of the impact of migration on the distribution of household income. Remittances, and especially foreign pensions …This article analyses the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algerian emigration …, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) is used to analyse the effects of remittances on the distribution of household incomes. The …

high poverty rate in the country. -- Haiti ; education ; remittances ; migration …Using the Cox proportional hazards model this paper empirically investigates how migration of household members and the … receipt of remittances affect educational outcomes in Haiti. Based on a theoretical approach it tries to disentangle the …

This study examines the role of migrant's remittances on labor supply for a panel of Peruvian households over the … period 2002-2006. Remittances can undermine the incentives to work. On the other hand, the in ows may alleviate credit … estimations, we show that remittances have no average effect on employment. However, (male) wage- employment decreases, and self …

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 ….6% respectively. -- remittances ; poverty ; inequality ; Ethiopia …