How Do Migration And Remittances Affect Inequality A Case Study Of Mexico

Author : Zsoka Koczan,Franz Loyola
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484361634

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How Do Migration and Remittances Affect Inequality? A Case Study of Mexico by Zsoka Koczan,Franz Loyola Pdf

The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the receiving side. It hopes to speak to their insurance role by examining how remittances are affected by domestic and external crises: the 1994 Mexican Peso crisis and the Global Financial Crisis. We find that remittances lower inequality, and that they become more pro-poor over time as migration opportunities become more widespread. This also strengthens their insurance effects, mitigating some of the negative impact of shocks on the poorest.

Author : Alfredo Cuecuecha,Carla Pederzini
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739169797

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Migration and Remittances from Mexico by Alfredo Cuecuecha,Carla Pederzini Pdf

Migration and Remittances from Mexico: Trends, Impacts, and New Challenges, edited by Alfredo Cuecuecha and Carla Pederzini, compiles twelve articles on the migration phenomenon from Mexico and other Latin American countries to the United States. The first part of the book provides an overview of three recent surveys, all carried out in Mexico. The surveys consider international migration flows from Mexico to the United States, the characteristics of migrants, and some of the causes and effects of migration in Mexico both for national and rural samples. The next section of the book analyzes the factors that explain the relationship between internal migration and human development. Then, the authors look at different issues of migration from Mexico and Latin American countries to the United States. The topics include female educational selection in migrants from Mexico to the United States, the impact of differences in the U.S.-Mexico labor market outcomes on the migratory flow, the working conditions of Mexican migrants to the United States under H2 visas, and the breadth and depth of migrants' connections from Latin American countries to the United States. The fourth and final section of the book studies a variety of aspects related to remittances from United States to Mexico and Latin American countries, including whether remittances promote growth in Mexico, whether remittances sent to Mexico finance migration of more Mexicans to the United States, and whether remittances have positive impacts in the households that receive them. The contributors to Migration and Remittances from Mexico are specialized migration researchers, trained in a broad variety of fields, including economics, sociology, demography, and political science in both Mexico and the United States. This range of backgrounds provides an essential multidisciplinary perspective from both sides of the border.

Author : Ms.Kimberly Beaton,Ms.Svetlana Cerovic,Misael Galdamez,Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov,Franz Loyola,Zsoka Koczan,Mr.Bogdan Lissovolik,Mr.Jan Kees Martijn,Ms.Yulia Ustyugova
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484306260

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Migration and Remittances in Latin America and the Caribbean by Ms.Kimberly Beaton,Ms.Svetlana Cerovic,Misael Galdamez,Metodij Hadzi-Vaskov,Franz Loyola,Zsoka Koczan,Mr.Bogdan Lissovolik,Mr.Jan Kees Martijn,Ms.Yulia Ustyugova Pdf

Outward migration has been an important phenomenon for countries in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC), particularly those in Central America and the Caribbean. This paper examines recent trends in outward migration from and remittances to LAC, as well as their costs and benefits. For the home country, the negative impact from emigration on labor resources and productivity seems to outweigh growth gains from remittances, notably for the Caribbean. However, given emigration, remittance flows play key financing and stabilizing roles in Central America and the Caribbean. They facilitate private consumption smoothing, support financial sector stability and fiscal revenues, and help reduce poverty and inequality, without strong evidence for harmful competitiveness effects through shifts in the real exchange rate.

Author : David J. McKenzie,Hillel Rapoport
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Can Migration Reduce Educational Attainment? by David J. McKenzie,Hillel Rapoport Pdf

The authors examine the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico. Using historical migration rates by state to instrument for current migration, they find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on schooling attendance and attainment of 12 to 18 year-old boys and 16 to 18 year-old girls. IV-Censored Ordered Probit results show that living in a migrant household lowers the chances of boys completing junior high school and of boys and girls completing high school. The negative effect of migration on schooling is somewhat mitigated for younger girls with low educated mothers, which is consistent with remittances relaxing credit constraints on education investment for the very poor. However, for the majority of rural Mexican children, family migration depresses educational attainment. Comparison of the marginal effects of migration on school attendance and on participation in other activities shows that the observed decrease in schooling of 16 to 18 year-olds is accounted for by the current migration of boys and increased housework for girls.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475575224

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Regional Economic Outlook, April 2017, Western Hemisphere Department by International Monetary Fund. Western Hemisphere Dept. Pdf

With the global economy gaining some momentum, economies of Latin America and the Caribbean are recovering from a recession at the regional level in 2016. This gradual improvement can be understood as tale of two adjustments, external and fiscal, that are ongoing in response to earlier shocks. But headwinds from commodity terms-of-trade shocks and country-specific domestic factors are fading, paving the way for real GDP to grow by about 1 percent in 2017. Regional activity is expected to pick up further momentum in 2018, but at a slower pace than previously anticipated, while medium-term growth is projected to remain modest at about 2.6 percent. The outlook is shaped by key shifts in the global economic and policy landscape—where slow growth, low productivity, and high income inequality are creating pressure for a shift toward inward- looking policies in some advanced economies. Domestic fundamentals and developments, however, will continue to play a significant role in determining growth for the region. At the same time, risks to the outlook have widened in a setting of higher global uncertainty. In this challenging external context, countries should aim for completing fiscal and external adjustments to preserve or rebuild policy buffers. Charting a course toward higher, sustainable, and more equitable growth will also require strengthening structural reforms. Specifically, closing infrastructure gaps, improving the business environment, governance, and education outcomes, and encouraging female labor participation are necessary to boost medium-term growth and foster income convergence. Chapters in this report examine the ongoing external adjustment to terms-of-trade shifts, drivers of capital flows to the region, the role of the investor base, and macroeconomic impact of migration and remittances.

Author : Karima Kourtit,Bruce Newbold,Peter Nijkamp,Mark Partridge
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030482916

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The Economic Geography of Cross-Border Migration by Karima Kourtit,Bruce Newbold,Peter Nijkamp,Mark Partridge Pdf

This handbook presents a collection of high-quality, authoritative scientific contributions on cross-border migration, written by a carefully selected group of recognized migration experts from around the globe. In recent years, cross-border migration has become an important and intriguing issue, from both a scientific and policy perspective. In the ‘age of migration’, the volume of cross-border movements of people continues to rise, while the nature of migration flows – in terms of the determinants, length of stay, effects on the sending and host countries, and legal status of migrants – is changing dramatically. Based on a detailed economic-geographical analysis, this handbook studies the motives for cross-border migration, the socio-economic implications for sending countries and regions, the locational choice determinants for cross-border migrants, and the manifold economic-geographic consequences for host countries and regions. Given the complexity of migration decisions and their local or regional impacts, a systematic typology of migrants (motives, legal status, level of education, gender, age, singles or families, etc.) is provided, together with an assessment of push factors in the place of origin and pull factors at the destination. On the basis of a solid analytical framework and reliable empirical evidence, it examines the impacts of emigration for sending areas and of immigration for receiving areas, and provides a comprehensive discussion of the policy dimensions of cross-border migration.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780821363454

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Global Economic Prospects 2006 by Anonim Pdf

International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has enormous implications for growth and welfare in both origin and destination countries. An important benefit to developing countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that development countries' remittance receipts totaled 160 billion in 2004, more than twice the size of official aid. This year's edition of Global Economic Prospects focuses on remittances and migration. The bulk of the book covers remittances.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : UCR:31210009789056

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International Comparisons of Educational Attainment by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Leblang,Benjamin Helms
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009233224

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The Ties That Bind by David Leblang,Benjamin Helms Pdf

Immigration integral to globalization, creating connections and mobilizing investments in human and financial capital across countries.

Author : Valerie Cerra,Barry Eichengreen,Asmaa El-Ganainy,Martin Schindler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 901 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192846938

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How to Achieve Inclusive Growth by Valerie Cerra,Barry Eichengreen,Asmaa El-Ganainy,Martin Schindler Pdf

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining social mobility, economic fragility, unbalanced growth due to technology and globalization, and existential danger from climate change are urgent global concerns of our day. These issues are intertwined. They therefore require a holistic framework to examine their interplay and bring the various strands together. Leading academic economists have partnered with experts from several international institutions to explain the sources and scale of these challenges. They gather a wide array of empirical evidence and country experiences to lay out practical policy solutions and to devise a comprehensive and unified plan of action for combatting these economic and social disparities. This authoritative book is accessible to policy makers, students, and the general public interested in how to craft a brighter future by building a sustainable, green, and inclusive society in the years ahead.

Author : International Monetary Fund
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513571966

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The Impact of International Migration on Inclusive Growth: A Review by International Monetary Fund Pdf

International migration is an important channel of material improvement for individuals and their offspring. The movement of people across country borders, especially from less developed to richer countries, has a substantial impact in several dimensions. First, it affects the migrants themselves by allowing them to achieve higher income as a result of their higher productivity in the destination country. It also increases the expected income for their offspring. Second, it affects the destination country through the impact on labor markets, productivity, innovation, demographic structure, fiscal balance, and criminality. Third, it can have a significant impact on the countries of origin. It may lead to loss of human capital, but it also creates a flow of remittances and increases international connections in the form of trade, FDI, and technological transfers. This paper surveys our understanding of how migration affects growth and inequality through the impact on migrants themselves as well as on the destination and origin countries.

Author : Nordine Abidi,Mehdi Akhbari,Bashar Hlayhel,Sahra Sakha
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798400240966

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Remittances and Social Safety Nets During COVID-19: Evidence from Georgia and the Kyrgyz Republic by Nordine Abidi,Mehdi Akhbari,Bashar Hlayhel,Sahra Sakha Pdf

Remittances and Social Safety Nets During COVID-19: Evidence From Georgia and the Kyrgyz Republic

Author : United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789290851332

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UNRISD Flagship Report 2022 by United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Pdf

Author : Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Publisher : United Nations
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789213583302

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World Social Report 2020 by Department of Economic and Social Affairs Pdf

This report examines the links between inequality and other major global trends (or megatrends), with a focus on technological change, climate change, urbanization and international migration. The analysis pays particular attention to poverty and labour market trends, as they mediate the distributional impacts of the major trends selected. It also provides policy recommendations to manage these megatrends in an equitable manner and considers the policy implications, so as to reduce inequalities and support their implementation.

Author : Jorge A. Schiavon,Rafael Fernández de Castro
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000874068

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The International Relations of California and Texas with Mexico and the World by Jorge A. Schiavon,Rafael Fernández de Castro Pdf

This book analyzes the international relations of Mexico and the two most important sub-state governments of the United States, California and Texas. It explains why and how these two states conduct their international relations (IR) with Mexico and the world, and how national authorities and local governments coordinate in the definition and implementation of their international policies. Expert contributors from across the Americas offer a historical and current analysis, exploring which areas of cooperation—trade, investment, border cooperation, energy, migration—matter most. They also consider the institutional and legal bases of Mexican and U.S. states’ international relations, the changing nature of the U.S. federal system, the impact on international partners, the role of Latinos and the future of paradiplomacy in the region. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations, comparative politics, diplomacy, foreign policy, governance, and federalism, as well as business people, social leaders, and practitioners of diplomacy and paradiplomacy around the world.