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NEP: New Economics Papers
Agricultural Economics
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Edited by: Angelo Zago
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Universita degli Studi di Verona
Date: 2005-08-03
Papers: 1
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In this issue we have:
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1. Migration and technological change in rural households:
complemen ts or substitutes?
Mariapia MENDOLA
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1. Migration and technological change in rural households:
complemen ts or substitutes?
Mariapia MENDOLA
In this paper we study the interrelationship between
determinants of migration, conceived as a family strategy, and
the potential impact of having a migrant household member on
people left behind . Labour migration is often related to poverty
but given its lump y-investment nature, poverty may constitute a
motivation to migra te as well as a constraint to do it. We use
cross-sectional house hold data from two rural regions of
Bangladesh to test whether mi gration is a form of income
diversification strategy that signifi cantly influences the risk-
taking behaviour of source farm househ olds in agricultural
activities. We account for heterogeneity of migration constraints
differentiating between domestic (temporary and permanent) and
international moving destinations. We find th at richer and large-
holder households are more likely to particip ate in costly high-
return migration (i.e. international migration ) and employ
modern technologies, thereby achieving higher produc tivity.
Poorer households, on the other hand, are not able to ove rcome
entry costs of moving abroad and fall back on migration wit h low
entry costs, and low returns (i.e. domestic migration); the
latter does not help them to achieve production enhancements and
may act as a poverty-trap locking households into persistent pov
erty.
Keywords: Internal and International Migration, Farm Household
Behaviour, Agricultural Production Choices.
URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:mil:wpdepa:2005-15&r=agr
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