Labour migration, income inequality and remittances : a case study of Mexico (English)

This paper uses the extended Gini inequality index to examine the sensitivity of measurements of impacts of migrant remittances on the distribution of household income by size to different value judgements when measuring inequality. The results illustrate the robustness of earlier findings that the impacts of migration on village income distributions differ for different types of migration and for different periods in a village's migration history...

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Stark,Oded;

Taylor,John Edward;

Yitzhaki,Shlomo;
Document Date
1987/01/01
Document Type
Departmental Working Paper
Report Number
DRD283
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Mexico,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2013/06/10
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Labour migration, income inequality and remittances : a case study of Mexico
Keywords
internal migrant

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Stark,Oded; Taylor,John Edward; Yitzhaki,Shlomo.

Labour migration, income inequality and remittances : a case study of Mexico (English). Development Research Department discussion paper ; no. DRD 283 Washington DC : World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/923501468276382051

Labour migration, income inequality and remittances : a case study of Mexico (English)

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