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 …

This paper analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on income inequality and gender wage gap in source regions … income inequality is time-persisting, we use a system GMM framework to control for the lagged income inequality, in which … inequality in the sending communities. Specifically, contemporary emigration increases income inequality, while lagged emigration …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …