title: Migration, remittances, and inequality: estimating the net effects of migration on income distribution.
abstract: "This paper examines the net effects of migration and remittances on income distribution. Potential home earnings of migrants are imputed, as are the earnings of non-migrants in migrant households, in order to construct no-migration counterfactuals to compare with the observed income distribution including remittances. The earnings functions used to impute migrant home earnings are estimated from observations on non-migrants in a selection-corrected estimation framework which incorporates migration choice and labor-force participation decisions.  For a sample of households in Bluefields, Nicaragua, migration and remittances increase income inequality when compared with the no-migration counterfactual."
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barham
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Boucher
mesh_terms: D000569:Americas; D002489:Central America; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D007182:Income; D007843:Latin America; D009527:Nicaragua; D009656:North America; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Americas; Central America; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Human Resources; Income; Income Distribution; Inequalities; Labor Force; Latin America; Microeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Nicaragua; North America; Population; Population Dynamics; Remittances; Socioeconomic Factors