Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Shen, I-Ling - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006
We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While wealth inequality is shown to be monotonically reduced along the time-span, the short- and the long-run impacts on income inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the...