Barriers to exit

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• dc.contributor.author Chong, Alberto
• dc.contributor.author León-Ciliotta, Gianmarco
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-01-31T09:11:40Z
• dc.date.available 2025-01-31T09:11:40Z
• dc.date.issued 2008
• dc.description.abstract Using several cross‐sectional and panel data methodologies, this paper provides evidence of the existence of an inverted U‐shaped relationship between international remittances and income inequality in a cross section of 78 countries. Our analysis supports previous theoretical work that describes how, at the first stages of migration history, there is an inequality‐increasing effect of remittances on income inequality. Then, as the opportunity cost of migrating decreases due to this effect, remittances tend to lower inequality. We also show how education and the development of the financial sector can help countries reach faster the inequality‐decreasing section of the curve.
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• dc.identifier.citation Chong A, León G. Barriers to exit. Econ Lett. 2008 Apr;99(1):93-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.06.002
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.06.002
• dc.identifier.issn 0165-1765
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69408
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Econonomics Letters. 2008 Apr;99(1):93-7
• dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2007.06.002.
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• dc.subject.keyword Migration
• dc.subject.keyword International remittances
• dc.subject.keyword Income distribution
• dc.subject.keyword GMM‐IV
• dc.title Barriers to exit
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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