Regional economic development and Mexican out-migration
By: Kurt Unger.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11432; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11432.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Emigrant remittances -- Mexico.; Community development -- Mexico.; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration.
Description: "This paper shows evidence of positive effects in the economic development of sending communitiesin Mexico due to migration.  The principal hypothesis of this study is that remittances, knowledge and experience acquired by migrants during their migratory cycle, can be translated into larger economic growth in the out migration municipalities.  This result presupposes that Government could create complementary incentives to take advantage of profitable activities.  Economic and migration data for each municipality is used which allows to associate characteristics of communities, migratory flows and the effects in profitable activities.  There are three sections.  A first section describes the sending municipalities according to migratory intensity and their urban /rural nature.  The second section analyzes the relation between remittances and socioeconomic conditions of the communities.  In a third section the effect over time is estimated, relating per capita income growth and migratory flows intensity.  The most relevant results are the existence of income convergence over time between high and low migration municipalities in the North and South of Mexico.  As well, we find a positive and significant relation between per capita income growth and the percentage of households that receive remittances across communities, both at the country level and for the northern and southern regions separately"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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