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Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

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 model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease wealth inequality but may generate higher income inequality. Moreover, the short-run and long-run impacts of migration on income inequality may also be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration and inequality may well be characterized by an inverse U-shaped pattern. This is consistent with the findings of the empirical literature on remittances and inequality, but offers a different interpretation, with no need to endogenize migration costs through the role of migrant networks.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2003-05

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Thema
Migration
remittances
inequality

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Docquier, Frédéric
Rapoport, Hillel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics
(wo)
Ramat-Gan
(wann)
2003

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Docquier, Frédéric
  • Rapoport, Hillel
  • Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2003

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