Social Forces
Volume 81, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1147-1170

Migrants' social ties in the U.S. and investment in Mexico (Review)

Mooney M.*
  • a 125 Wallace Hall, Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Abstract

Using a sample of 1,112 heads of household from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), I develop a multinomial logit regression to test the hypothesis that migrants with social ties to other migrants in their place of settlement will have a greater risk of investing their remittances and savings on a productive activity or a home than of spending them on consumption. I find that migrants who live with family members or townspeople during their last migration trip have a higher risk of investing their savings on a productive activity or a home relative to spending them on consumption. Migrants who belong to a social club with other migrants have a higher risk of investing their remittances on production or housing than of using them for consumption.

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-4644334356&doi=10.1353%2fsof.2003.0066&partnerID=40&md5=c458090e9443753847088c4abaec17da
DOI: 10.1353/sof.2003.0066
ISSN: 00377732
Cited by: 28
Original Language: English