Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour

Arbeitspapier

This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy change implemented in the 1990s, which tightened the entry requirements for a subgroup of applicants. We use a mix of a conditional difference-in-differences and OLS estimator accounting for the presence of interactive fixed-effects to address the challenge of evaluating the impact of policy change using data drawn from two distinct migrant samples, deriving the conditions to obtain a consistent estimator. We show two results: one due to policy change and the other due to change in the composition of migrants. The two results capture different aspects of remittance behaviour.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 94 [rev.]

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Estimation: General ; International Migration ; Remittances ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
• Subject: Immigration ; average treatment effect on the treated ; difference-in-differences

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Piracha, Matloob ; Tani, Massimiliano ; Tchuente, Guy
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Global Labor Organization (GLO)
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232515
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET