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Temporary international migration, shocks and informal insurance: analysis using panel data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419122
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Temporary international migration, shocks and informal insurance : analysis using panel data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417636
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Temporary international migration, shocks and informal finance: Analysis using panel data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-19
We examine households' temporary international migration response when faced with shocks in rural Kyrgyzstan. Using a … household fixed effects model, we find that while a drought shock increases migration, a winter shock reduces migration. We … argue that this difference is because of the trade-off between two effects of a shock for a household: loss of income and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552461
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Temporary International Migration, Shocks and Informal Insurance: Analysis using panel data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417016
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Temporary International Migration, Shocks and Informal Insurance: Analysis Using Panel Data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497952
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Temporary International Migration, Shocks and Informal Insurance : Analysis Using Panel Data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250256
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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806518
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Diaspora externalities
Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26
This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064002
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Environmental disasters and migration
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2015
insurance mechanism against environmental shocks. Remittances help to decrease households' vulnerability to shocks but also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346755
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The Impact of Migration on Children Left Behind in Developing Countries : Outcomes Analysis and Data Requirements
Rossi, Andrea - 2014
parent migrating, and the impact of migration and remittances on the children left behind is still notably absent in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014142626