 The Effect of Work Migration on Domestic Labour Supply in AlbaniaNo 76, wiiw Balkan Observatory Working Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw Abstract: Using information from the Albania Panel Survey 2002-2003, we study the determinants of labour market states (market work, home production, inactivity) of married women in Albania, looking in particular on the effect of husbands’ migrant work activity and the receipt of remittances. We further explore the determinants of joint labour market states of spouses considered in our sample, distinguishing the above three states and work migration abroad in the case of husbands, to account for the possibility that the migrant state of the husband may be endogenous with respect to the state of the wife. Our findings shot what wives of working migrant husbands are most likely to pursue home production, which may be due to weaker labour market attachment of the households sending working migrant men abroad. Our results do not support the view that wives receiving income from family members working abroad choose to consume more leisure as compared with wives lacking such income. Keywords: work migration; labour supply; remittances; Albania (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published as wiiw Balkan Observatory Working Paper Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wii:bpaper:076 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in wiiw Balkan Observatory Working Papers from The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, wiiw Contact information at EDIRC. |
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