Labor Migration and Social Networks Participation: Evidence from Southern Mozambique

Juan Gallego () and Mariapia Mendola

No 183, Working Papers from University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates how social networks in poor developing settings are af- fected if people migrate. By using an unique household survey from two southern regions in Mozambique, we test the role of labor mobility in shaping participation in groups and social networks by migrant sending households in village economies at origin. We find that households with successful migrants (i.e. those receiving either remittances or return migration) engage more in community based social networks. Our findings are robust to alternative definitions 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.

Keywords: International Migration; Social Capital; Networks; Group Participation; Mozambique (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O12 O15 O17 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 pages
Date: 2010-02, Revised 2010-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-afr, nep-mig, nep-net, nep-soc and nep-ure
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