Inequality and Poverty in the Lost Decade: Brazilian Income Distribution in the 1980s
In: The New Economic Model in Latin America and its Impact on Income Distribution and Poverty, S. 249-270
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In: The New Economic Model in Latin America and its Impact on Income Distribution and Poverty, S. 249-270
In: IZA Journal of development and migration, Band 9, Heft 1
ISSN: 2520-1786
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In: IZA Journal of development and migration, Band 9, Heft 1
ISSN: 2520-1786
AbstractWe explore patterns of successive migration within rural households in Ghana and the impact that these successive migrants have on household welfare outcomes. Specifically, we use a household panel survey collected in 2013 and 2015. We exploit the panel nature of the data and a weighting method to overcome sources of bias. Welfare is measured with an index of housing quality. We find that successive migrants face lower migration costs, and few of them remit. We find no effect of sending a new migrant on the housing quality index. We conclude that the different nature of migration of successive migrants implies neither an economic gain for the household nor a loss. The reason is that the successive migration becomes less costly for migrants from households with prior migration experience, but at the same time, these migrants remit less or not at all compared to earlier waves of migrants.
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In: Feminist economics, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 257-296
ISSN: 1466-4372
In: International migration review: IMR, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 812-851
ISSN: 1747-7379, 0197-9183
This paper evaluates the impact of migrant remittances on human capital accumulation among youth. An augmented human capital model with two outcomes, education attendance and education attainment, is estimated using a large nationally representative household survey from Jordan. Empirical results show that migrant remittance receipt has a positive effect on education attendance. This finding is obtained while controlling for other socio-economic determinants of schooling behavior and is robust to censorship and endogeneity bias. The results also indicate that the magnitude of the remittance impact on both education outcomes is larger for men compared with that of women.
In: Eastern European economics: EEE, Band 45, Heft 5, S. 69-94
ISSN: 1557-9298
In: Eastern European economics, Band 45, Heft 5, S. 69-94
ISSN: 0012-8775
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In: Cuadernos de economía, Band 38, Heft 114
ISSN: 0717-6821
In: Non-Tariff Barriers, Regionalism and Poverty; World Scientific Studies in International Economics, S. 367-373
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In: MICROCON Research Working Paper No. 37
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Brazil's Gini coefficient rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling back to 0.56 in 2004. Poverty incidence rose from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993, before falling to 0.22 in 2004. This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the determinants of Brazil's distributional reversal over this period. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have been driven by increases in educational attainment in a context of convex returns, and by high and accelerating inflation. Although the secular decline in inequality, which began in 1993, is associated with declining inflation, it also appears to have been driven by four structural and policy changes, namely, declining returns to education; pronounced rural-urban convergence; increases in social assistance transfers targeted to the poor; and a possible decline in racial inequality. Falling inequality has made a substantial contribution to poverty reduction.
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In: Cuadernos de economía, Band 38, Heft 114
ISSN: 0717-6821
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