scholarly journals International Migration Experience and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Mexico

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Thomas Wassink
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Entrepreneurial Entry ◽  
Annual Probability ◽  
Sending Areas

This study investigates the effect of international migration experience on entrepreneurship in sending areas. To identify prosperous businesses that create jobs and encourage economic development, this study isolates businesses other than street-vending enterprises with non-family employees. Retrospective life history data from the Mexican Migration Project (N = 11,789 persons & 146,372 person-years) was used to estimate the annual probability of becoming an entrepreneur across 170 Mexican communities between 1975-2017. This study found that (1) any prior migration experience increases the probability of entrepreneurial entry relative to non-migrants; (2) accumulated months of migration experience are positively associated with the probability of entrepreneurial entry; (3) undocumented status is associated with a lower probability of entrepreneurial entry. The positive effect of accumulated migration experience on entrepreneurship suggests that international migrants can accumulate human and financial resources that are essential to early stage entrepreneurship. Thus, entrepreneurship represents an important pathway through which international migration can encourage economic development in less developed regions. At the same time, the results suggest that immigration policies in receiving countries can undercut migrants’ capacities to mobilize resources and contribute to economic development upon return. These findings suggest that target migration creates a win-win by addressing labor shortages in receiving countries, while transferring resources to sending areas that enable economic mobility and development.

Migration, Family Formation and Fertility in the Americas

2020 ◽  
pp. 019791832092335
Author(s):  
David P. Lindstrom ◽  
Anairis Hernandez-Jabalera ◽  
Silvia Giorguli Saucedo
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Family Formation ◽  
Marital Dissolution ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Low Fertility ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
First Birth ◽  
Migration Experience ◽  
Early Migration

In many low- and medium-income countries that are the traditional sources of international migrants, total fertility rates have dropped to levels at or near replacement. In this context of low fertility, we expect migration’s effects on fertility to operate primarily through marital timing and marital stability. We examine the effects of international migration on age at first marriage, union dissolution, timing of first birth, and completed fertility, using retrospective life-history data collected in Mexico and eight other Latin American countries by the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) and the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP). Using discrete-time hazards and Poisson regression models, we find clear evidence that early migration experience results in delayed marriage, delayed first birth, and a higher rate of marital dissolution. We also find evidence among women that cumulative international migration experience is associated with fewer births and that the estimated effects of migration experience are attenuated after taking into account age at union formation and husbands’ prior union experiences. As fertility levels in migrant origin and destination countries continue on their path toward convergence, migrant fertility below native fertility may become more common due to migration’s disruptive effects on marital timing and marital stability and the selection of divorced or separated adults into migration.

Response: The Use of Economic Anthropology in Economic Development

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 321-323
Author(s):  
Rhoda H. Halperin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
History Of

The author comments on the use of anthropological methodologies in economic development research and practice in a developed economy such as the United States. The focus is the article by Morales, Balkin, and Persky on the closing of Chicago's Maxwell Street Market in August 1994. The article focuses on monetary losses for both buyers (consumers of market goods) and sellers (vendors of those goods) resulting from the closing of the market. Also included are a brief history of the market and a review of the literature on the informal economy. The authors measure “the value of street vending” by combining ethnographic and economic analytical methods.

The Value of Benefits of a Public Street Market: The Case of Maxwell Street

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 304-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfonso Morales ◽  
Steven Balkin ◽  
Joseph Persky
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Public Markets ◽  
Canal Street ◽  
Development Analysis

EDQ introduces a new format to the Forum section in this issue. Periodically an article is submitted to us that raises important policy or methodological issues that have generated sharp responses from external reviewers. We believe that the debate that has taken place between the authors and reviewers is of such importance that we have then solicited people to comment on the article. Controversy on Maxwell Street raises the issue of the marriage of anthropologic and economic techniques in economic development analysis. We hope that you find this debate as stimulating as we did. Controversy on Maxwell Street began when Morales, Balkin, and Persky submitted their article, “The Value of Benefits of a Public Street Market: The Case of Maxwell Street.” We then requested that Rhoda H. Halperin and Wim Wiewel respond. Following their responses is a rejoinder by the authors. Chicago's Maxwell Street Market was among the oldest open-air public markets in the United States. The market was closed in August 1994 and a smaller alternative market was opened on Canal Street. This article estimates monetary losses resulting from the closure of the market. First, the authors briefly discuss the markets history, followed by a review of the literature on the informal economy. The problem of quantifying the value of street vending is addressed by combining ethnographic and economic analytical methods. Ethnography is introduced in the article's third section. The authors demonstrate the usefulness of merging ethnographic and economic analysis by estimating monetary losses to vendors and consumers as a result of changes in the market's governance and location.

scholarly journals Socio‐economic Development and International Migration: A Turkish Study

2001 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Icduygu ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽  
Gülnur Muradoglu
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Socio Economic Development

Science Parks and High-Tech Zones

2021 ◽  
pp. 336-353
Author(s):  
Susan M. Walcott
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
High Technology ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Science Parks ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Effective Implementation ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Development Institution

Science parks were envisioned as an economic development institution from their inception, designed to provide employment that is particularly geared toward a highly educated labor force. Funds generally come from government sources at the early stage. The intention of science park development is to jump-start businesses that could benefit from research generated by a nearby university or research institution. This chapter reviews the development of science parks and high-technology zones in China with a focus on their impact on regional and national innovation. Discussion includes the industrial and technological focus of such zones, the relevance of specialization, and issues of effective implementation.

scholarly journals Economic growth and its key factors: an alternative view on the factors stimulating agriculture growth

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 13028
Author(s):  
Prateep Wajeetongratana
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
International Migration ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Domestic Markets ◽  
The Core

This research study makes an attempt to study the impacts of natural resources as well as financial and labor factors on economic development of contemporary states. Also, it investigates the correlation between all these factors mentioned above, in the context of countries’ economic growth. The obtained here results have helped us determine the core reasons behind international migration as a global phenomenon applicable to all countries without exceptions. Indirectly, we also demonstrate the transforming role of the labour factor as applied to economic development of countries and regions. Finally, positive impacts of a set of manufacturing factors on both international and domestic markets are demonstrated.

scholarly journals Insecticide exposure during brood or early-adult development reduces brain growth and impairs adult learning in bumblebees

2020 ◽  
Vol 287 (1922) ◽  
pp. 20192442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dylan B. Smith ◽  
Andres N. Arce ◽  
Ana Ramos Rodrigues ◽  
Philipp H. Bischoff ◽  
Daisy Burris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adult Development ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Nervous System Development ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Similar Degree ◽  
Micro Computed Tomography ◽  
Olfactory Conditioning ◽  
Social Bees ◽  
Computed Tomography Scanning

For social bees, an understudied step in evaluating pesticide risk is how contaminated food entering colonies affects residing offspring development and maturation. For instance, neurotoxic insecticide compounds in food could affect central nervous system development predisposing individuals to become poorer task performers later-in-life. Studying bumblebee colonies provisioned with neonicotinoid spiked nectar substitute, we measured brain volume and learning behaviour of 3 or 12-day old adults that had experienced in-hive exposure during brood and/or early-stage adult development. Micro-computed tomography scanning and segmentation of multiple brain neuropils showed exposure during either of the developmental stages caused reduced mushroom body calycal growth relative to unexposed workers. Associated with this was a lower probability of responding to a sucrose reward and lower learning performance in an olfactory conditioning test. While calycal volume of control workers positively correlated with learning score, this relationship was absent for exposed workers indicating neuropil functional impairment. Comparison of 3- and 12-day adults exposed during brood development showed a similar degree of reduced calycal volume and impaired behaviour highlighting lasting and irrecoverable effects from exposure despite no adult exposure. Our findings help explain how the onset of pesticide exposure to whole colonies can lead to lag-effects on growth and resultant dysfunction.

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