Agricultural Land Use and Asset Accumulation in Migrant Households: the Case of El Salvador

Damon, Amy L.

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“…There is a large literature that examines the impact of remittances on a number of household-level economic outcomes such as consumption decisions (Adams 2005), production (Damon 2010), schooling (Acosta 2006; Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo 2010) and labor supply (Acosta 2006;Amuedo-Dorantes and Pozo 2006;Damon 2007;Hanson 2007). Studies on the relationship between remittances and labor supply find that an increase in remittances has a negative effect on labor hours supplied and labor force participation by men and women of working age and that the effect is often greater for women.…”

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Remittances and Labor Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

Justino

Shemyakina

2010

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may Abstract:We analyze the impact of remittances on the labor supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. Individuals from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labor market and supply fewer hours when they do. The results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure to the 1992-1998 armed conflict, we observe that the negative effect of remittances on the labor supply of women is primarily driven by women from the regions more exposed to fighting and destruction during the war. Remittances have a similar negative effect on the supply of labor hours worked across all regions, both for men and women. Further, in the households that do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not remittances is the primary factor explaining male labor force participation.

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Remittances and Labor Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

Justino

Shemyakina

2010

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“…To construct a variable that serves as a proxy for the migrant network outside of Tajikistan, we divided the number of households that have at least one household member who lived abroad for at least three months between 1998 and 2003 by the number of surveyed households (usually 20) in each primary sampling unit. A similar variable was used by Damon (2007Damon ( , 2010 and Acosta (2006) to proxy for the size of migrant network.…”

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Remittances and Labour Supply in Post‐Conflict Tajikistan

Justino

Shemyakina

2012

IDS Working Papers

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The Conflict, Violence and Development research cluster is part of the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction team at the Institute of Development Studies. The cluster's main focus is to develop new insights into how people in contexts of conflict and violence live and interact, and what institutions best support them. We use our research findings to inform, identify and develop policies and practices that will strengthen people's efforts to secure their own lives and livelihoods. Email: conflict@ids.ac.uk Web: www.ids.ac.uk/go/research-teams/vulnerability-and-poverty-reduction-team/researchthemes/conflict CVD WP7 This publication is copyright, but may be reproduced by any method without fee for teaching or nonprofit purposes, but not for resale. Formal permission is required for all such uses, but normally will be granted immediately. For copying in any other circumstances, or for reuse in other publications, or for translation or adaptation, prior written permission must be obtained from the publisher and a fee may be payable. Remittances and Labour Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan Patricia Justino and Olga N. Shemyakina SummaryThis paper analyzes the impact of remittances on the labour supply of men and women in post-conflict Tajikistan. We find that on average men and women from remittance-receiving households are less likely to participate in the labour market and supply fewer hours when they do. The negative effect of remittances on labour supply is smaller for women, which is an intriguing result as other studies on remittances and labour supply (primarily focused on Latin America) have shown that female labour supply is more responsive to remittances. The results are robust to using different measures of remittances and inclusion of variables measuring migration of household members. We estimate a joint effect of remittances and an individual's residence in a conflict-affected area during the Tajik civil war. Remittances had a larger impact on the labour supply of men living in conflict-affected areas compared to men in less conflict-affected areas. The impact of remittances on the labour supply of women does not differ by their residence in both the more or less conflict affected area.

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“…An example is diasporic communities separated by a large Euclidian space, but maintaining social connections that transcend physical distances. As such, spatially distant communities can influence land use decisions "back home" (e.g., [61][62][63]). Similarly, examples of local socioeconomic distinctions imposed on communities when some people are incorporated into large-scale agro-business production, while others are left out, illustrate how being physically close does not equate to being socially connected (e.g., [64][65][66]).…”

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On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

Friis

Nielsen

2017

Sustainability

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Land-based production provides societies with indispensable goods such as food, feed, fibre, and energy. Yet, with economic globalisation and global population growth, the environmental and social trade-offs of their production are ever more complex. This is particularly so since land use changes are increasingly embedded in networks of long-distance flows of, e.g., material, energy, and information. The resulting scientific and governance challenge is captured in the emerging telecoupling framework addressing socioeconomic and environmental interactions and feedbacks between distal human-environment systems. Understanding telecouplings, however, entails a number of fundamental analytical problems. When dealing with global connectivity, a central question is how and where to draw system boundaries between coupled systems. In this article, we explore the analytical implications of setting system boundaries in the study of a recent telecoupled land use change: the expansion of Chinese banana plantation investments in Luang Namtha Province, Laos. Based on empirical material from fieldwork in Laos in 2014 and 2015, and drawing on key concepts from the 'systems thinking' literature, we illustrate how treating the system and its boundaries as epistemological constructs enable us to capture the differentiated involvement of actors, as well as the socio-economic and environmental effects of this land use change. In discussing our results, the need for more explicit attention to the trade-offs and implications of scale and boundary choices when defining systems is emphasised.

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Agricultural Land Use and Asset Accumulation in Migrant Households: the Case of El Salvador

Cited by 66 publications

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Remittances and Labor Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

Remittances and Labor Supply in Post-Conflict Tajikistan

Remittances and Labour Supply in Post‐Conflict Tajikistan

On the System. Boundary Choices, Implications, and Solutions in Telecoupling Land Use Change Research

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