title: Remittances and income distribution.
abstract: "The paper studies the effects of [foreign] remittances on the pattern of income distribution in Yugoslavia.  It is found that remittances raise the Gini coefficient, although unequally as between different social groups.  One reason may be that in social groups where the diffusion of information is relatively even (as among urban households) migration is more uniform across income groups than it is in social groups where the access to information depends primarily on the level of income (e.g. rural households). In the latter groups distribution of migrants is more skewed towards higher income groups and remittances increase the level of inequality more substantially."  Data are from household surveys conducted in Yugoslavia in 1973, 1978, and 1983.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Milanovic
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005191:Family Characteristics; D007182:Income; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011203:Poverty; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D015022:Yugoslavia
keywords: Communication; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Family And Household; Households; Income; Income Distribution; Information; Information Distribution; International Migration; Low Income Population; Microeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Models, Theoretical; Population; Population Dynamics; Remittances; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Southern Europe; Yugoslavia