Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique

There is a large literature pointing to community participation and social networks as salient components of household well-being in developing settings. Yet, there are few insights into whether people mobility a§ects incentive problems associated with social networks, or whether labor migration dis...

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Autores Principales: Gallego, Juan M., Mendola Mariapia
Formato: Preimpresión (Preprint)
Lenguaje:Inglés (English)
Publicado: Univerdad Dagliano 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28449
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spelling ir-10336-284492022-07-15T08:03:38Z Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique Migración laboral y participación en redes sociales: evidencia del sur de Mozambique Gallego, Juan M. Mendola Mariapia International Migration Social Capital Networks Group Participation Mozambique There is a large literature pointing to community participation and social networks as salient components of household well-being in developing settings. Yet, there are few insights into whether people mobility a§ects incentive problems associated with social networks, or whether labor migration displaces social informal institutions in village economies at origin. This paper directly tests the role of international migration in shaping participation in groups and social networks by migrant sending households in village economies at origin. By using an original household survey from two southern regions in Mozambique, we Önd that households with successful migrants (i.e. those receiving either remittances or return migration) engage more in community based social networks. Our Öndings are robust to alternative deÖnitions of social interaction and to endogeneity concerns suggesting that stable migration ties and higher income stability through remittances may decrease participation constraints and increase household commitment in cooperative arrangements in migrant-sending communities 2009-01-01 2020-08-28T15:48:13Z info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint info:eu-repo/semantics/draft https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28449 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess application/pdf Univerdad Dagliano instname:Universidad del Rosario
institution EdocUR - Universidad del Rosario
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language Inglés (English)
topic International Migration
Social Capital
Networks
Group Participation
Mozambique
spellingShingle International Migration
Social Capital
Networks
Group Participation
Mozambique
Gallego, Juan M.
Mendola Mariapia
Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique
description There is a large literature pointing to community participation and social networks as salient components of household well-being in developing settings. Yet, there are few insights into whether people mobility a§ects incentive problems associated with social networks, or whether labor migration displaces social informal institutions in village economies at origin. This paper directly tests the role of international migration in shaping participation in groups and social networks by migrant sending households in village economies at origin. By using an original household survey from two southern regions in Mozambique, we Önd that households with successful migrants (i.e. those receiving either remittances or return migration) engage more in community based social networks. Our Öndings are robust to alternative deÖnitions of social interaction and to endogeneity concerns suggesting that stable migration ties and higher income stability through remittances may decrease participation constraints and increase household commitment in cooperative arrangements in migrant-sending communities
format Preimpresión (Preprint)
author Gallego, Juan M.
Mendola Mariapia
author_facet Gallego, Juan M.
Mendola Mariapia
author_sort Gallego, Juan M.
title Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique
title_short Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique
title_full Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique
title_fullStr Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique
title_full_unstemmed Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique
title_sort labor migration and social networks participation: evidence from southern mozambique
publisher Univerdad Dagliano
publishDate 2009
url https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28449
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