The Impact of Migration and Remittance on Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam

Cuong Nguyen and Linh Vu ()

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: This paper examines the pattern and the impact of migration and remittances on household welfare in Vietnam using fixed-effects regressions and panel data from Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2010 and 2012. Overall, the effect of migration as well as remittances on employment of remaining members on home households is small. People in households with migration and remittances tend to work less than people in other households. There is no evidence that migration and remittances can help household members to work more on non-farm activities. Remittances, especially international remittances help receiving households increase per capita income and per capita expenditure. Although migration leads to an increase in remittances, it also leads to a reduction in income earned by migrants if they had not migrated. However, per capita consumption expenditure of migrant-sending households increases because of a reduction in household size

Keywords: Migration; remittances; impact evaluation; household welfare; poverty; Vietnam. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I3 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-03-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mig, nep-sea and nep-tra
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/80084/1/MPRA_paper_80084.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: The Impact of Migration and Remittances on Household Welfare: Evidence from Vietnam (2018)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:80084

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter ().