TY - JOUR
T1 - Migration networks as a response to financial constraints
T2 - Onset, and endogenous dynamics
AU - Stark, Oded
AU - Jakubek, Marcin
PY - 2013/3
Y1 - 2013/3
N2 - A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded to study cooperation between more than two migrants, it emerges that there is a finite optimal size of the migration network. Consequently, would-be migrants in the sending country will form a multitude of networks, rather than a single grand network.
AB - A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded to study cooperation between more than two migrants, it emerges that there is a finite optimal size of the migration network. Consequently, would-be migrants in the sending country will form a multitude of networks, rather than a single grand network.
KW - Affinity
KW - Cost of migration
KW - Interpersonal bonds
KW - Migration networks
KW - Schedule of migration
KW - Sequential migration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867799027&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.07.002
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AN - SCOPUS:84867799027
SN - 0304-3878
VL - 101
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - Journal of Development Economics
JF - Journal of Development Economics
IS - 1
ER -