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Existing studies on the impact of migration on income inequality at sending communities suffer from severe methodology … defects and data limitations. This paper analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on inequality using a newly … is the first paper that examines the dynamic aspects of migration and income inequality employing a dynamic panel data …
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inequality in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In carrying out the study, 34 SSA countries for which relevant data are available …-income inequality exploration. A set of dynamic panel-data models was estimated using system Generalized Method of Moments. It was found … an intensifying income-inequality aggravating effects in countries with relatively wider income gap. It is, thus …
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This paper presents tests and estimates of the human capital model of income inequality using synthetic cohort data for … Thailand: 1992–2011. The model focuses on four primary determinants of income inequality: mean per capita income levels, the … are important sources of income inequality in Thailand, with relative impacts that differ across demographic groups and …
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We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … wealth inequality is shown to be monotonically reduced along the time-span, the short-and the long-run impacts on income … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may …
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We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … wealth inequality but may generate higher income inequality. Moreover, the short-run and long-run impacts of migration on …
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We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … wealth inequality but may generate higher income inequality. Moreover, the short-run and long-run impacts of migration on …
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Using a longitudinal dataset from the years 1995 and 2000, respectively, this study examines whether migration within the host country of Sweden generates higher total annual income for (two-earner) immigrant families. The empirical findings indicate that internal migration generates a positive...
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This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...
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Migration typically leads to higher income, but its association with life satisfaction remains unclear. Is migration accompanied by an increase in life satisfaction? If it is, is the increase in income responsible or are other life domains driving the satisfaction changes? These two questions...
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Spanish internal migration has long been resistant to traditional economic explanations. However this paper examines the data from 1999-2006 after considerable changes in the Spanish economy. Moreover it examines migration at the disaggregated level of Spanish provinces rather than regions, the...
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