International migration and development in mexican communities

Durand, Jorge; Kandel, William; Parrado, Emilio A.; Massey, Douglas S.

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“…Prior work also shows that remittances decrease as migrants' ties to origin weaken over time (Durand et al 1996a), which is captured by indicators of years since an individual migrated, and whether migrant has U.S. documentation. Other control variables are migrants' monthly wages (in 2000 US$), and binary indicators for their destination (Northeast, Midwest, South and West).…”

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“…Estimates indicate that international remittances to developing countries have reached US$240 billion annually in 2007, becoming the second largest source of external finance for these countries after foreign direct investment (Ratha and Xu 2008). Remittance flows relax budget and credit constraints of origin households, and create investment opportunities in origin communities (Durand et al 1996a;Durand, Parrado and Massey 1996b;Rapoport and Docquier 2006;Rempel and Lobdell 1978;Stark and Levhari 1982;Taylor 1999). These flows also provide a potential pathway for income redistribution to the most deprived regions of the world (Jones 1998).…”

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Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

Garip

2012

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To evaluate the distributional impact of remittances in origin communities, prior research studied how migrants' selectivity by wealth varies with migration prevalence in the community or prior migration experience of the individual. This study considers both patterns, and examines selectivity separately in low and high prevalence communities and for first-time and repeat migrants. Based on data from 18,042 household heads in 119 Mexican communities from the Mexican Migration Project, the analyses show that (i) first-time migrants in low prevalence communities come from poor households, while repeat migrants in high prevalence communities belong to wealthy households, and (ii) higher amounts of remittances reach wealthy households.These results suggest that repeat migration and remittances may be mechanisms for wealth accumulation in the study communities. Descriptive analyses associate these mechanisms with increasing wealth disparities between households with and without migrants, especially in high prevalence communities. The study, similar to prior findings, shows the importance of repeat migration trips, which, given sustained remittances, may amplify the wealth gap between migrants and non-migrants in migrant-sending communities. The study also qualifies prior findings by differentiating between low and high prevalence communities and observing a growing wealth gap only in the latter.

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Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

Garip

2012

Demography

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“…Many of these studies indicated that the education and the income level of the migrant and his family are the major determinants of remittances. Durand et al (1996) showed that migrant's wage and job situation, the number of dependents at home, marital status, and age of the migrant are major factors that shaped the amount remittance. Briere et al (2002) used household survey data from the Dominican Republic to test between two motivations to remit: insurance, whereby migrants remit on the basis of an insurance contract with their parents; and investment, whereby migrants remit on the basis of potential bequests from their families.…”

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The Altruistic Motive of Remittances: A Panel Data Analysis of Economies in Sub Saharan Africa

Fonchamnyo¹

2012

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Remittances have become an important source of foreign exchange earnings in many countries as migrants continue to send income to relatives at home. However, the main motives for sending remittances remain controversial. This paper examines the relative importance of the socio-political and economic determinants of remittance inflow using an unbalance panel data of 36 economies in the Sub Saharan African Region in an attempt to assess the altruistic motive of remittance inflow. The results using a random effect estimation technique show that altruism is important for remitting, as the per capita income differential between host and home country and the age dependency ratio are positive and statistically significant. The level of per capita income of the home country is also found to be negative and statistically significant which also supports the altruistic motive of remittances. The results further suggest that the development of the financial sector and the proportion of Catholics in the population will encourage remittance inflow. These results are robust to the different specifications and estimation methodology.

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“…Indeed, both migration and child labor/schooling decisions could be simultaneously driven by community or household-level factors that may be unobservable to the researcher (see e.g. Durand and Massey, 1992;Durand et al, 1996;. Several papers have studied the effect of migration and remittances on child labor and schooling in developing countries.…”

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Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico

Alcaraz

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Salcedo

2012

Journal of Development Economics

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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. Abstract This paper studies the effects of remittances from the U.S. on child labor and school attendance in recipient Mexican households. We identify these effects using the impact of the 2008-2009 U.S. recession on remittance receipts. The methodology employed is a differencesin-differences strategy that compares households that were remittance recipients before the crisis with never-recipient households. To avoid possible selection problems, we instrument for membership in the remittance recipient group. We find that the negative shock on remittance receipts caused a significant increase in child labor and a significant reduction of school attendance. Keywords: Child labor, International migration, Remittances, Mexico. JEL Classification: J43; J81; O15. Terms of use: Documents in ResumenEn este documento se analizan los efectos de las remesas que los hogares mexicanos reciben de Estados Unidos sobre el trabajo infantil y la asistencia escolar. Para la identificación de estos efectos se utiliza el impacto de la recesión estadounidense de 2008-2009 sobre las remesas recibidas. Se emplea una metodología de diferencias-en-diferencias que compara hogares que recibían remesas antes de la crisis con hogares no receptores. Para evitar posibles problemas de selección, se instrumenta la variable de pertenencia al grupo receptor de remesas. Los resultados indican que el choque negativo sobre las remesas causó un incremento significativo del trabajo infantil y una reducción significativa de la asistencia escolar. Palabras Clave: Trabajo infantil, Migración internacional, Remesas, México.

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International migration and development in mexican communities

Cited by 370 publications

References 22 publications

Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

Repeat Migration and Remittances as Mechanisms for Wealth Inequality in 119 Communities From the Mexican Migration Project Data

The Altruistic Motive of Remittances: A Panel Data Analysis of Economies in Sub Saharan Africa

Remittances, schooling, and child labor in Mexico

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