Working paper
Individual migration and household incomes
NBER working paper series, Vol.22326
National Bureau of Economic Research
06/2016
DOI: 10.3386/w22326
Abstract
We estimate the returns to internal migration in South Africa. These appear to be the first nationally representative estimates of the return to migration for any African country-- a somewhat surprising claim for a literature that's over 60 years old. We develop a framework to analyze individual migration in the context of income pooling within endogenously formed households. We apply this framework to estimate the return to migration from the perspective of the migrant (as is typically done) as well as from the perspectives of the sending and receiving households.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Individual migration and household incomes
- Creators
- Julia Garlick
- Resource Type
- Working paper
- Publication Details
- NBER working paper series, Vol.22326
- DOI
- 10.3386/w22326
- Publisher
- National Bureau of Economic Research; Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Number of pages
- 52 pages
- Language
- English
- Date posted
- 06/2016
- Academic Unit
- Economics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380609702771
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