Migrant Organization and Hometown Impacts in Rural Mexico

Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico

Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network vari...

The Role of Migrant Elites in Rural Development

some rural-urban migrations, especially in countries and regions with strong kinship, tribal, community and ethnic relationships, have led to the creation of ethnic businesses within which entrepreneurial and business elites emerge. In some cases, the financial resources of these people return to their native villages and lead to rural development. Therefore, this research seeks to find the str...

A Rural Migrant Community in Urban Beijing

Hometown Organisations and Development Practices

Research Background) This working paper is part of a comparative research project looking at three immigrant groups (two North African Berber groups: the Moroccan Chleuhs and the Algerian Kabyles, and the Sikh Punjabis from India) residing in two receiving countries (France and the UK). This work seeks to explain the emergence of hometown associations committed to the development of their place...

Globalization and E-Commerce: Diffusion and Impacts in Mexico

Technology and Organizations (CRITO) at the University of California, Irvine. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0085852. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Partial support from the S...