Migration Networks as a Response to Financial Constraints:Onset and Endogenous Dynamics

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URI: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-63428
http://hdl.handle.net/10900/47956
Dokumentart: WorkingPaper
Date: 2012
Source: University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; 42
Language: English
Faculty: 6 Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Department: Wirtschaftswissenschaften
DDC Classifikation: 330 - Economics
Keywords: Netzwerk
Other Keywords:
Migration network , Schedule of migration , Sequential migration , Affinity , Interpersonal bonds , Cost of migration
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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. When the risk involved in participating in a cooperation agreement is incorporated, the propensity to enter an agreement is shown to depend positively on the cost of migration.

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