Decomposing the contribution of migration to poverty reduction: Methodology and application to Tanzania

Arbeitspapier

In an economy with migration, poverty changes are composed of a number of forces, including the income gains and losses realized by the various migration streams. We present a simple but powerful decomposition methodology that uses panel data to measure the contributions of different migration streams to overall poverty change. An application to Tanzania shows the new insights that are provided - in particular on the role of migration to secondary towns in poverty reduction.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: LICOS Discussion Paper ; No. 406

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration ; Economywide Country Studies: Africa
• Thema: Panel data ; household surveys ; internal migration ; urbanization ; poverty reduction ; decomposable poverty indices

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Christiaensen, Luc J. ; De Weerdt, Joachim ; Kanbur, Ravi
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance
• (wo): Leuven
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/200490
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ