Migration’s Income and Poverty Impact

In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is presented analytically and is estimated on the basis of data from Ghana’s GLSS household survey. The latter is shown to be equal to 2.6 to 4.6 times the impact obtained from standard analysis.

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Year of publication:	2006-12
Authors:	Schiff, Maurice
Institutions:	Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios
Subject:	Migration \| income \| poverty \| underestimation \| reference groups

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	F22 - International Migration ; I32 - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration ; O19 - International Linkages to Development; Role of International Organizations ; R23 - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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