What Are Migration Networks?

Thomas Bauer (thomas.bauer@rwi-essen.de), Ira Gang and Gil Epstein

Departmental Working Papers from Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice.

Keywords: immigration; location choice; networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-08-23
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