The Impact of Migration on Vietnam Household Living Standards

Ngoc Hung Pham, Manh Dung Tran, Anh Duc Le and Thuy Linh Le
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Ngoc Hung Pham: Faculty of Mathematical Economics, National Economics University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
Manh Dung Tran: Journal of Economics and Development, National Economics University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
Anh Duc Le: Academic Affairs Office, National Economics University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
Thuy Linh Le: Faculty of Foreign Languages for Economics, National Economics University, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam

JRFM, 2022, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-11

Abstract: This study is conducted to investigate the impact of migration on living standards of households with migrants in the context of Vietnam. Data were collected from the results of Vietnam Household Living Standards in the time series. Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition was employed to decompose the source of differences in income between households with migrants and households without migrants. The results show that households with migrants in the multiyear dataset had a higher income than nonmigrant households, and migration had different impacts on expenditure at different quantiles. By conducting quantile regression, migration had positive impacts on expenditures at the 10% and 50% quantile, but no impact at the 90% quantile. Based on the findings, some implications in policies for managers, such as appropriate policies for poor workers in order to improve their living standards, especially poor households in rural or mountainous areas, are proposed.

Keywords: quantile regression migration; household living standards; Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C E F2 F3 G (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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