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Labor Market Outcomes Of Non-Migrant Members In Response To Remittances: Evidence From Provincial Capital Of Punjab And Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (Kpk)

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  • Waqas Shair

    (Lecturer, School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences, Minhaj University Lahore, Pakistan)

  • Muhammad Tariq Majeed

    (Associate Professor, School of Economics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan)

Abstract

This study analyses the effect of remittances on labor market outcome of non-migrant member of household living in two provincial capital cities of Pakistan. This study aims to expand the effect of remittances on labor supply of households head and labor participation of non-migrant member of household. The labor participation of non-migrant member decompose in likelihood of participate in labor market and likelihood of participate in voluntary unemployment in response to remittances. For empirical analysis, this study used household survey conducted in Peshawar and Lahore. The sample size comprises 300 household having a migrant and data has been collected by using snowball sampling technique. This study uses Two Stage Least Square (2SLS) model due to potential endogenity in remittances. For this purpose, characteristics of the migrant use as instrument to determine the amount of remittances. Furthermore, this study also use Tobit model to estimate the unbiased and consistence estimates. The estimates of the 2SLS and Tobit model suggested that remittances have significantly negative effect on the labour supply of households head. This indicate the dominance of income effect which state that household substitute work for leisure. Furthermore, this study shows that remittances decrease the likelihood of participation in labor market and increase the likelihood of participation in voluntary unemployment for nonmigrant members. This implies that presence of migrant in the household increases the reservation wage which keeps the non-migrant member of the household out of labour force.

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  • Waqas Shair & Muhammad Tariq Majeed, "undated". "Labor Market Outcomes Of Non-Migrant Members In Response To Remittances: Evidence From Provincial Capital Of Punjab And Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (Kpk)," Review of Socio - Economic Perspectives 202047, Reviewsep.
    • Handle: RePEc:aly:journl:202047
    DOI: 10.19275/RSEP073
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    Remittances; Labour Supply; Labour Participation; Voluntary Unemployment;
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    JEL classification:

    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • C24 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models; Threshold Regression Models
    • F24 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Remittances

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