Remittance outcomes and migration: Theoretical contests, real opportunities

Cohen, Jeffrey H.

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“…However, some studies also take a more micro-oriented approach and investigate the effects on well-being of the household members remaining at home. Results of these studies are mixed, some concluding that remittances are mostly used to cover day-to-day needs, rather than being invested productively (see, for example Lipton, 1980, Orozco et al, 2005, Cohen, 2005, Clement, 2011, while others find significant increases in household investments (e.g. Adams, 1989, Adams and Page, 2005, Acosta et al, 2007, Woodruff and Zenteno, 2007.…”

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Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

Meier

2014

SSRN Journal

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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: It is often assumed that international labor migration from Tajikistan, while having no noticeable effects on investment (usually defined as medium and long-term consumption, such as education, or investment into housing or business), on average leads to an increase in short-term consumption, mostly food. In this paper, a simple household-level model determining the migration decision is developed and tested empirically. In a second step, the effect of low-skilled labor migration on household expenditure shares is analyzed using 2SLS. While only weak effects of migration measured by a simple dummy are visible, repeating the analysis using the length of the migration spell instead, as well as its squared term, reveals that labor migration apparently takes a while to "kick in" and become profitable to those remaining at home. The observed long-term effects on household consumption patterns, albeit being rather small, actually speak in favour of investment of remittances, with the respective shares increasing over time, while the budget share spent on food slowly decreases. Terms of use: Documents in

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Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

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2014

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“…This school of thought believed that remittances are only used for daily survival but not in productive activities. In such situation, there is no impact of remittances on development and poverty reduction (Cohen, 2005, Seddan, 2004, Martinez, 2004, Goldring, 2004, Urzua, 2000and De Haas, 2006 The concept of new economic of labor migration and livelihood approaches emerged in 1980 and 1990s based on both optimistic (neo-classical theory) and pessimistic (structuralist) views of migration. This school of thought focuses that the migrants' remittances have both positive and negative effects for development process.…”

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Does Migration Reduce the Household Poverty in Nepal?

Adhikari¹

2014

JSSA

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Kathmandu and Research Co-coordinator of Transcultural Psychosocial Organization (TPO) Nepal, Migration is both cause and consequence of poverty. In some parts of the world, poverty is the root cause of migration, whereas in other parts, the poor are among the last to move. This study tries to explore the impact of migration of any member of the households in the per capita consumption expenditure and the socio-economic status of the households by using Poverty Alleviation Fund household survey: 2010/11, which covered 3000 households from Humla, Jumla, Rolpa, Doti, Dailekh and Rauthat. The study used quasi-experimental research design and poverty was measured by using the same procedure employed by Nepal Living Standard Survey (NLSS) 2010/11. The relationship between poverty and migration was measured with the help of Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression model whereas socio-economic status of the households was measured with the help of Chi square analysis. The finding indicated that access of piped drinking water, modern toilet facilities, access the radio/tape, mobile/telephone, land ownership, average months of food sufficiency and average per capita consumption expenditure was better for the (any member) migrant's households compared to non-migrant's households. Based on this poverty line, it was derived that around 34 percent households fall below the poverty line.The incidence of poverty was higher for the non-migrants' households compared to any member migrants' households.

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“…Para algunos autores el transnacionalismo corresponde principalmente a los adultos migrantes, que en los jóvenes desaparece casi en su totalidad, constituyendo un fenómeno de relativa poca duración (Portes, 2001(Portes, , 2004Rumbaut, 2002), que se desvanece en las posteriores generaciones de origen migrante (Cohen, 2005) lo que probablemente tenga mínimas consecuencias a largo plazo y ninguna capacidad de abarcar las siguientes generaciones a gran escala (Rumbaut, 2002;Alba y Nee, 2003).…”

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“…Algunas investigaciones han mostrado que el activismo transnacional no es necesariamente normativo en las comunidades migrantes adultas (Portes, 2004), perdiendo fuerza entre la población joven (Portes, 2001(Portes, , 2004Rumbaut, 2002;Cohen, 2005), de la que se afirma que se "aculturan muy rápidamente al nuevo ambiente, dejando de lado las preocupaciones de sus padres sobre las cuestiones de las naciones de origen" (Portes, 2004: 6).…”

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Sujetos políticos y actores sociales transnacionales: reconfiguración de las identidades y vínculos polí-ticos de los y las jóvenes colombianas en migración

Buriticá

2012

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RESUMENEl artículo se encarga de analizar la manera cómo los y las jóvenes migrantes colombianas en España tejen los lazos y vínculos políticos trasnacionales en relación con la configuración de sus identificaciones políticas, y los factores que median en el establecimiento de su activismo transnacional. Los análisis se enmarcan en los resultados de una investigación cualitativa, etnográfica y longitudinal desarrollada por la autora con población juvenil colombiana que migró por diferentes motivos (reagrupación familiar, autónomamente o por exilio), desde el año 2001 a 2007, en las regiones de Madrid y Murcia en España. Las identificaciones políticas de los y las jóvenes de origen migrante se transforman a la luz de los contextos sociales, políticos, culturales y económicos específicos de origen y destino, en su dimensión espacial y temporal, e influyen de manera significativa en el establecimiento de su participación política transnacional.Palabras clave: migración; identidades políticas; transnacionalismo; Colombia; España. Transnational political subjects and social actors: Reconfiguration of the identities and political links of the young Colombians in migration ABSTRACTThis article seeks to assess the way in which young Colombian male and female migrants in Spain establish links and transnational political bounds in relation to their political identifications, as well as the factors which mediate in the founding of their transnational activism. The analysis should be understood in the frame of a qualitative, ethnographical and longitudinal research. The author´s target is young Colombian population which migrated due to several reasons (family regrouping, on their own, or exile), from 2001 to 2007, in the Spanish regions of Madrid and Murcia. The political identifications of young men and women migrants are transformed according to specific social, political, cultural and economic contexts in their origin and destination countries, and to their spatial and temporal dimensions. All these factors exercise a crucially significant influence on the establishment of their transnational political participation.

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Remittance outcomes and migration: Theoretical contests, real opportunities

Cited by 91 publications

References 67 publications

Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

Does Migration Reduce the Household Poverty in Nepal?

Sujetos políticos y actores sociales transnacionales: reconfiguración de las identidades y vínculos polí-ticos de los y las jóvenes colombianas en migración

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