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On the Underestimation of Migration's Income and Poverty Impact

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dc.contributor.authorSchiff, Maurice
dc.date.accessioned2012-03-30T07:30:24Z
dc.date.available2012-03-30T07:30:24Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractIn estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, most existing studies have overlooked the fact that migration changes the size of the household. The 'corrected' impact that accounts for changes in household size is presented analytically and is estimated on the basis of data from nationally representative household surveys in Albania and Ghana. The analysis considers three poverty measures and four groups of migrant households: those with internal, international, internal and international, and internal and/or international migrants. The ratio of the corrected to the uncorrected impact on per capita income for Ghana (Albania) averages from 2.7 to 4.5 (2.5-3.8), and the ratio for the poverty impact averages from 2.6 to 4.4 (2.1-6.4). Thus, abstracting from changes in household size may result in a substantial underestimate of the impact of migration on income and poverty.en
dc.identifier.citationReview of Economics of the Household
dc.identifier.issn15695239
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/4923
dc.language.isoEN
dc.relation.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.subjectConsumer Economics: Empirical Analysis D120
dc.subjectInternational Migration F220
dc.subjectMeasurement and Analysis of Poverty I320
dc.subjectDemographic Trends and Forecasts
dc.subjectGeneral Migration J110
dc.subjectMarriage
dc.subjectMarital Dissolution
dc.subjectFamily Structure
dc.subjectDomestic Abuse J120
dc.subjectMicroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development O120
dc.subjectEconomic Development: Human Resources
dc.subjectHuman Development
dc.subjectIncome Distribution
dc.subjectMigration O150
dc.titleOn the Underestimation of Migration's Income and Poverty Impacten
dc.title.alternativeReview of Economics of the Householden
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.typeArticle de journalfr
dc.typeArtículo de revistaes
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okr.doctypeJournal Article
okr.externalcontentExternal Content
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum1536
okr.journal.nbpages267-284
okr.language.supporteden
okr.peerreviewAcademic Peer Review
okr.region.countryAlbania
okr.region.countryGhana
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okr.relation.associatedurlhttp://www.springerlink.com/content/1569-5239
okr.volume6
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