Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset, and endogenous dynamics

Oded Stark and Marcin Jakubek

Journal of Development Economics, 2013, vol. 101, issue C, 1-7

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Migration networks; Schedule of migration; Sequential migration; Affinity; Interpersonal bonds; Cost of migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 D71 D90 F22 F24 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.07.002

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