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

Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur

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.

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Year of publication:	[2018]
Authors:	Christiaensen, Luc J. ; De Weerdt, Joachim ; Kanbur, Ravi
Publisher:	Leuven, Belgium : KU Leuven, Faculty of Economics And Business, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance
Subject:	Panel data \| household surveys \| internal migration \| urbanization \| poverty reduction \| decomposable poverty indices \| Armut \| Poverty \| Armutsbekämpfung \| Poverty reduction \| Tansania \| Tanzania \| Städtische Armut \| Urban poverty \| Binnenwanderung \| Internal migration \| Dekompositionsverfahren \| Decomposition method \| Urbanisierung \| Urbanization \| Panel \| Panel study \| Internationale Migration \| International migration

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 8 Seiten)
Series:	LICOS discussion paper series / LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance : discussion paper. - Leuven : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ZDB-ID 2432254-4. - Vol. 406 (2018)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/200490 [Handle]
Classification:	J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; O55 - Africa
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913694