
"To Have and Have Not”: Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria,
Miotti, Luis; Mouhoud, El Mouhoub; Oudinet, Joël; Margolis, David N. (2015), "To Have and Have Not”: Migration, Remittances, Poverty and Inequality in Algeria,, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117, 2, p. 650-685. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sjoe.12103
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2015Journal name
The Scandinavian Journal of EconomicsVolume
117Number
2Publisher
Wiley
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650-685
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Miotti, LuisMouhoud, El Mouhoub
Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
Oudinet, Joël
Margolis, David N.
Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques [PJSE]
Abstract (EN)
In this paper, using an original survey, we analyze the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is comple- mented with a parametric model. Remittances do not significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of the counterfactual scenarios. However, migration reduced poverty by 40 per- cent, with different effects across regions for extreme poverty. Foreign transfers, especially foreign pensions, have a strong positive impact on very poor families in one region. Poor families in the other region suffer from a “double loss”: their migrants do not provide local income and they do not send much money home.Subjects / Keywords
remittances; pensions; poverty; Inequality; migrationRelated items
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