“To Have and Have Not”: International Migration, Poverty, and Inequality in Algeria

David Margolis, Egidio Miotti, El Mouhoub Mouhoud () and Joel Oudinet

Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2015, vol. 117, issue 2, 650-685

Abstract: In this paper, using an original survey, we analyze the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is complemented with a parametric model. Remittances do not significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of the counterfactual scenarios. However, migration reduced poverty by 40 percent, with different effects across regions for extreme poverty. Foreign transfers, especially foreign pensions, have a strong positive impact on very poor families in one region. Poor families in the other region suffer from a “double loss”: their migrants do not provide local income and they do not send much money home.

Date: 2015
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