Estimating the Net Effects of Migration and Remittances on Poverty and Inequality: Comparison of Fiji and Tonga

Richard P.C. Brown and Eliana Jiménez

No RP2007-23, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We use original 2005 household survey data from Fiji and Tonga to estimate the impact of migration and remittances on income distribution and measures of poverty, after controlling for selectivity in migration and endogeneity in the relationship between remittances and income. Measures of inequality and poverty based on actual, with-migration income and remittances are then compared with those based on a no-migration scenario. Counterfactual household incomes are estimated, taking account of what the migrant members would have earned had they not migrated.

Keywords: Emigrant remittances; Emigration and immigration; Equality and inequality; Income distribution; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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