2020
DOI: 10.1080/00128775.2020.1720517
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Measuring Dynamic Effects of Remittances on Poverty and Inequality with Evidence from Kosovo

Abstract: This paper investigates dynamic effects of remittances on households' poverty and income distribution. Using state-of-the-art matching techniques, we measure impacts based on counterfactual scenarios, and make a step forward by applying for the first time a dose-response function approach to assess poverty effects due to variations in the time-length of receiving remittances. Our results suggest that remittances alleviate both absolute and relative poverty levels and lead to a marginal increase in inequality i… Show more

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“…The result confirms the positive and statistically significant impact of remittance inflows on income inequality in the countries. A similar conclusion has reached by [7,46]. Furthermore, in a comprehensive study by Azizi [12] also tries to figure out the impact of remittance inflows on inequality in 103 developing countries for the year of 1990-2014.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 56%
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“…The result confirms the positive and statistically significant impact of remittance inflows on income inequality in the countries. A similar conclusion has reached by [7,46]. Furthermore, in a comprehensive study by Azizi [12] also tries to figure out the impact of remittance inflows on inequality in 103 developing countries for the year of 1990-2014.…”
Section: Literature Reviewmentioning
confidence: 56%
“…For instance, certain studies found that remittance inflows foster economic growth [16,20,32,45], while other studies found a negative role of remittance inflows in economic growth [47,56]. However, another school of thought believes that remittance inflows may foster income inequality [7]. Others oppose the view while validating their observation in an empirical setting, either in a cross-country or country-level study [13,23,29].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El envío de remesas ha sido un tema ampliamente abordado en la literatura académica y en la formulación de políticas públicas de los países en desarrollo debido a dos aspectos fundamentales. Primero, el incremento sustancial que las remesas han tenido en los últimos años (Banco Mundial, 2020) y segundo, el impacto que la recepción de estos recursos ocasiona en los lugares de origen de los migrantes, especialmente en distintos indicadores de desarrollo como la seguridad alimentaria (Mora-Rivera y van Gameren, 2021; OIM, 2020); la pobreza y la desigualdad (Adams, 2011;Arapi et al, 2020;Taylor, 1999); en educación y salud (Fonta et al resaltan que los niños que pertenecen a hogares receptores de remesas reducen su participación en el mercado laboral, lo que podría disminuir la deserción escolar y con ello mejorar los indicadores de desarrollo de las comunidades expulsoras de migrantes.…”
Section: Remesas Y Gastos En Salud: Revisión De La Literaturaunclassified
“…Los datos de esta investigación provienen de la ENIGH de 2010 y 2016. La información de la encuesta permite conocer la procedencia y distribución de los ingresos y gastos de los hogares 10 en México, de manera tal que posibilita la identificación de los ingresos provenientes del exterior (remesas), así como la desagregación de los gastos en salud en sus principales rubros (Inegi, 2011). Sin embargo, la información de esta encuesta no permite identificar el uso final que se le da a cada una de las fuentes de ingreso; así pues, no es posible conocer de forma específica en qué categorías de gasto se emplean estas fuentes de ingreso, incluyendo a las remesas.…”
Section: Datos Y Estadísticas Descriptivasunclassified
“…Debates regarding the short-term consumption versus long-term investment goals of remittances are crucial to determining whether remittances support subsistence or foster increases in savings and investments for durable economic development. To this day, there remains mixed evidence on the inequality impacts of remittance flows, with evidence across corridors demonstrating both inequality exacerbating effects as well as potential inequality gap narrowing effects Vacaflores, 2018;Arapi-Gjini, Möllers and Herzfeld, 2020;Azizi, 2021).…”
Section: The Development Effect Of Remittancesmentioning
confidence: 99%