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 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

• Fecha de publicación: 2009
• Institución: Universidad del Rosario
• Repositorio: Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/28449
• Acceso en línea: https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/28449
• Palabra clave: International Migration; Social Capital; Networks; Group Participation; Mozambique
• License: http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2