Egyptian men working abroad: Labour supply responses by the women left behind

Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2011.03.002

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“…Mendola and Carletto (2009) Since labor supply often forms the basis for individual earnings, these results only scratch the surface of the potential long-term economic effects of migration on spouses left behind. If bargaining power is rooted in relative income shares of household members, male migration may result in a loss in bargaining power for women through its effects on labor supplied outside the home, as hypothesized in Binzel and Assaad (2011). This represents an important extension of the literature on the impact of migration on families left behind and should be explored further.…”

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The impact of migration on family left behind

Antman

2013

International Handbook on the Economics of Migration

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The impact of migration on family left behind

Antman

2013

International Handbook on the Economics of Migration

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“…Drawing on a widely used approach (Acosta 2006;Azzarri and Zezza 2011 6 ;Binzel and Assaad 2011;Chang et al 2011;Damon 2007;McKenzie and Rapoport 2007;Winters et al 2001), we use the size of migration network defined at community (the primary sampling unit) level, henceforth network, as our instrumental variable. At the household level, the correlation between network and the natural logarithm of remittances received is 0.167 and in the overall analytical sample it is 0.198 (both coefficients are significant at the one percent level).…”

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Remittances and Labor Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

Justino

Shemyakina

2010

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Abstract:We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labor market and supply fewer hours when they do. The results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is primarily driven by women from the regions more exposed to fighting and destruction during the war. Remittances have a similar negative effect on the supply of labor hours worked across all regions, both for men and women. Further, in the households that do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not remittances is the primary factor explaining male labor force participation.

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“…One important 2 It should be noted that this data pre-dates the recent political events in Egypt. 3 See for example Binzel and Assaad (2011). practical implication of our paper is in highlighting the benefits of collecting data on both current and return migrants within standard household surveys, thereby enabling researchers to address selection to better quantify the impact of migration on the home country.…”

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Selection, selection, selection: the impact of return migration

Wahba

2015

J Popul Econ

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The evidence on the impact of return migration on the sending country is rather sparse, though growing. The contribution of this paper is in addressing various selectivity problems whilst quantifying the impact of return migration on wages of returnees using non-experimental data.Using Egyptian household level survey data, I estimate the wages of return migrants controlling for several selectivity biases arising from emigration choice, return migration choice, labor force participation choice and occupational choice following return. The findings provide strong evidence that overseas temporary migration results in a wage premium upon return, even after controlling for the various potential selection biases. However the estimates underscore the significance of controlling for both emigration and return migration selections. Ignoring the double selectivity in migration would overestimate the impact of return migration on the wage premium of returnees, as migrants are positively selected relative to non-migrants, but returnees are negatively selected amongst migrants.

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Egyptian men working abroad: Labour supply responses by the women left behind

Cited by 108 publications

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The impact of migration on family left behind

The impact of migration on family left behind

Remittances and Labor Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

Selection, selection, selection: the impact of return migration

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