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Miluka, Juna; Carletto, Calogero; Davis, Benjamin; Zezza, Alberto. |
Taking advantage of new data on a high migration country, the main goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of migration on resource allocation to, and income from, agricultural production of farm households. The main channels through which these impacts can be expected to materialize are via the allocation of labor and capital resources of the households, as modified by the loss of "resident" family workforce to migration and the gain in access to working capital or credit made possible by the inflow of remittances or simply by an improved economic and financial status of the household associated with migration. Our results suggest that migration of one or more household members is being used by rural households in Albania as part of a strategy... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Farm Management. |
Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/9406 |
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