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

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2008

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Abstract: We use panel data from El Salvador and investigate the intra-household allocation of labor as a risk-coping strategy. Adverse agricultural productivity shocks both increased male migration to the US and male agricultural labor supply. This is not a contradiction if there were nonmonotonic effects on shadow wages within the survey period. In contrast, damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes exclusively stunted female migration. This is consistent with the earthquakes increasing the demand for home production.

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Authors: Halliday, Timothy, J

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Publication Number: 3322

Institution: University of Hawaii at Manoa and IZA

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Publisher Location: Bonn‎, Germany

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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