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Title: Migration, Risk and the Intra-Household Allocation of Labor in El Salvador

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Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased both male migration to the US and the supply of male agricultural labor in El Salvador. This is not a contradiction if there were non-monotonic effects on shadow wages within the survey period. In contrast, after damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes, female migration from El Salvador declined. This is consistent with the earthquakes increasing the demand for home production. We conclude that migration, household labor supply, and gender roles can have complicated interactions.

Url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.615.7578&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Authors: Halliday, Timothy, J

Publisher: University of Hawaii Manoa

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other

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