Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour

Matloob Piracha, Max Tani and Guy Tchuente

No 94 [rev.], GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: This paper analyses the remittance behaviour of two cohorts of migrants who entered Australia before and after a policy change implemented in the 1990s, which tightened the entry requirements for a subgroup of applicants. We use a mix of a conditional difference-in-differences and OLS estimator accounting for the presence of interactive fixed-effects to address the challenge of evaluating the impact of policy change using data drawn from two distinct migrant samples, deriving the conditions to obtain a consistent estimator. We show two results: one due to policy change and the other due to change in the composition of migrants. The two results capture different aspects of remittance behaviour.

Keywords: Immigration; average treatment effect on the treated; difference-in-differences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 F22 F24 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Working Paper: Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour (2017)
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