Relative Deprivation, Wage Differentials and Mexican Migration

By Michael A. Quinn. 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Does Development Reduce Migration? (2014, background): “But these studies control for absolute measures of assets (e.g. toilet facilities in Bhandari 2004, household education in Quinn 2006), so these relative findings are compatible with the existence of (for example) a mobility transition due to credit constraints in absolute terms.”
Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition (2017, background): “[59] finds a significant impact of relative deprivation in motivating domestic migration decisions in Mexico, while [21] argues that policies attempting to reduce rural out-migration must consider both absolute and relative community outcomes.”
Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual Review of Literature (2007, background): “…destitution or absolute poverty (Hampshire 2002), is a livelihood strategy pursued by social groups (typically households) in reaction to relative deprivation (Stark and Taylor 1989; see also Quinn 2006) in order to spread livelihood risks, secure and increase income and acquire investment capital.”
Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “…destitution or absolute poverty (Hampshire 2002), is a livelihood strategy pursued by social groups (typically households) in reaction to relative deprivation (Stark and Taylor 1989; see also Quinn 2006) in order to spread livelihood risks, secure and increase income and acquire investment capital.”
Relative poverty as a determinant of migration: evidence from Poland (2009, background): “15 For a fuller exposition of this issue see Stark (2006), p.”