Does migration make rural households more productive? Evidence from Mexico
ESA Working Paper 07-10
Año: 2007
The migration of labor out of rural areas and the flow of remittances from migrants to
rural households is an increasingly important feature of less developed countries. This
paper explores ways in which migration influences incomes and productivity of land and
human capital in rural households over time, using new household survey data from
Mexico. Our findings suggest that a massive increase in migration to the United States
increased per-capita incomes via remittances and also by raising land productivity in
migrant-sending households. They do not support the pessimistic view that migration
discourages production in migrant-sending economies, nor the view implicit in separable
agricultural household models that migration and remittances influence household
incomes but not production.
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http://www.fao.org/3/a-ah852e.pdf
Tema: Pobreza
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo
País: Mexico
JEL codes: O15, O13