Journal of Development Studies
Volume 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 899-912

The shadow value of migrant remittances, income and inequality in a household-farm economy (Article)

Taylor J.E.* , Wyatt T.J.
  • a Giannini Foundation, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis, CA, United States
  • b Giannini Foundation, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis, CA, United States

Abstract

This article offers econometric evidence that income remittances sent home by family migrants stimulate household-farm incomes indirectly by relieving credit and risk constraints on household-farm production. A high but unequally distributed shadow value of migrant remittances appears to reinforce an equalising direct effect of remittances on the income distribution across a sample of household-farms in rural Mexico.

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migrants' remittances migration impact farm household Mexico developing country household income shadow value econometric analysis farm income
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DOI: 10.1080/00220389608422445
ISSN: 00220388
Cited by: 151
Original Language: English