Poverty Transition in Rural Vietnam: The Role of Migration and Remittances
利用越南面板数据，结合新劳动移民经济学与资产基础福利动态方法，分析汇款对贫困转型的影响，发现汇款促进资产增长且效果因福利状况和民族而异。
This study combines insights of the New Economics of Labour Migration with the asset-based approach to welfare dynamics using panel household data from Vietnam. This method allows us to determine whether poverty transitions induced by remittances are actually structural, that is, based on asset growth and therefore long term, or stochastic, that is, based only on short-term increases in income, which implies a risk of falling back into poverty. To control for endogeneity of remittances, we use household fixed effects and instrumental variables estimation. The paper shows that remittances have a positive impact on asset growth and that the impact differs with welfare status and ethnicity.