The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent Economy
The aim of this study is to examine the impact of migration on migrant-sending communities. The particular attention is drawn to the well-being of households residing in Central Asia, where migration is a crucial issue due to constant and high outflow of labor force. More specifically, in an attempt...
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| description | The aim of this study is to examine the impact of migration on migrant-sending communities. The particular attention is drawn to the well-being of households residing in Central Asia, where migration is a crucial issue due to constant and high outflow of labor force. More specifically, in an attempt to determine the extent to which international migration influences subjective well-being of household members left behind, the research uses panel data collected in Tajikistan from 2007 to 2011. The results indicate that, on average, there is a positive relationship between migration of a family member and improvements in satisfaction with life as-a-whole and current financial situation of those who are staying behind. The positive effects are even more pronounced when the sample is restricted to migrant-sending households that receive remittances. The further split-sample analysis also documents that the impact of migration appears to be heterogeneous across different economic and geographic contexts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e426f65a8ab8454894c0f52ce47f79372022-12-22T01:17:41ZengCzech Statistical OfficeStatistika: Statistics and Economy Journal0322-788X1804-87652020-09-011003265281The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent EconomyAzizbek Tokhirov 0Charles University, Prague, Czech RepublicThe aim of this study is to examine the impact of migration on migrant-sending communities. The particular attention is drawn to the well-being of households residing in Central Asia, where migration is a crucial issue due to constant and high outflow of labor force. More specifically, in an attempt to determine the extent to which international migration influences subjective well-being of household members left behind, the research uses panel data collected in Tajikistan from 2007 to 2011. The results indicate that, on average, there is a positive relationship between migration of a family member and improvements in satisfaction with life as-a-whole and current financial situation of those who are staying behind. The positive effects are even more pronounced when the sample is restricted to migrant-sending households that receive remittances. The further split-sample analysis also documents that the impact of migration appears to be heterogeneous across different economic and geographic contexts.https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/125507865/32019720q3_tokhirov_analyses.pdf/531ef788-4dfb-4ba5-ad47-a01cd5d69b0e?version=1.1international migrationremittancessubjective well-beinglife satisfactionfinancial satisfaction |
| spellingShingle | Azizbek Tokhirov The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent Economy Statistika: Statistics and Economy Journal international migration remittances subjective well-being life satisfaction financial satisfaction |
| title | The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent Economy |
| title_full | The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent Economy |
| title_fullStr | The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent Economy |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent Economy |
| title_short | The Impact of Migration on Well-Being in a Remittances Dependent Economy |
| title_sort | impact of migration on well being in a remittances dependent economy |
| topic | international migration remittances subjective well-being life satisfaction financial satisfaction |
| url | https://www.czso.cz/documents/10180/125507865/32019720q3_tokhirov_analyses.pdf/531ef788-4dfb-4ba5-ad47-a01cd5d69b0e?version=1.1 |
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