Selection into Migration within a Household Model: Evidence from Senegal

Isabelle Chort and Jean-Noël Senne ()

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Abstract: This paper intends to fill the gap between individual selection models and household approaches to migration. It presents a theoretical model to account for household-based migration decisions and derives its implications on migrant selection within the household. The predictions are tested on unique multi-sited and matched samples of Senegalese migrants and their origin household, using a three-step estimation procedure based on an extension of the Roy-Dahl model of mobility and earnings. Our results suggest that expected remittances, along with earnings differentials between host and home countries, play a major role in shaping intra-household selection patterns.

Keywords: migration; household; Remittances; migrants; Roy-Dahl model; mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in World Bank Economic Review, 2015, 29 (1), ⟨10.1093/wber/lhv017⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhv017

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