Does Migration Make Rural Households More Productive? Evidence from Mexico
Does Migration Make Rural Households More Productive? Evidence from Mexico
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DOI：
10.1080/00220380903198463
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro
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作者：
Taylor, J. Edward;Lopez-Feldman, Alejandro
劳动力从农村地区向外移徙以及移徙者向农村家庭汇款，是欠发达国家日益重要的一个特点。本文利用墨西哥新的家庭调查数据，探讨了移民对农村家庭收入、土地生产率和人力资本的长期影响。我们的研究结果表明，移民到美国的大量增加通过汇款增加了人均收入，并提高了移民家庭的土地生产力。它们不支持移徙阻碍移民输出国经济体生产的悲观观点，也不支持可分离农业家庭模型中隐含的观点，即移徙和汇款影响家庭收入，但不影响生产。
The migration of labour out of rural areas and the flow of remittances from migrants to rural households are 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.