Migration’s Income and Poverty Impact

Maurice Schiff

Working Papers from University of Chile, Department of Economics

Abstract: In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The ‘corrected’ impact that takes the change in household size into account is presented analytically and is estimated on the basis of data from Ghana’s GLSS household survey. The latter is shown to be equal to 2.6 to 4.6 times the impact obtained from standard analysis.

Keywords: Migration; income; poverty; underestimation; reference groups (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I32 J61 O15 O19 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-12
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