Internal vs. international migration: Impacts of remittances on child well-being in Vietnam

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This paper focuses on the effects of domestic and international remittances on children's well-being. Using data from the 1992/93 and 1997/98 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys, we investigate average school attendance and child labour in remittance recipient and non-recipient households. The results of our cross-section and panel analyses indicate that remittances increase schooling and reduce child labour. Although international remittances are found to have a stronger beneficial impact than domestic remittances in the cross-section analysis, the panel analysis reverses this result, showing that the only significant impact stems from domestic remittances.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6523

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Other ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: migration ; remittances ; schooling ; child labour ; panel data ; Vietnam ; Rücküberweisung (Migranten) ; Kinder ; Schulbesuch ; Kinderarbeit ; Schätzung ; Vietnam

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Binci, Michele ; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58877
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2012081412480
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