Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador

Timothy Halliday

No 3322, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic effects on shadow wages within the survey period. In contrast, damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes exclusively stunted female migration. This is consistent with the earthquakes increasing the demand for home production.

Keywords: migration; labor supply; insurance; intra-household allocation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 35 pages
Date: 2008-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-agr, nep-dev, nep-ias, nep-lab, nep-lam and nep-mig
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Published - substantially revised version published as IZA DP No. 4903 , April 2010

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Working Paper: Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador (2007)
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