Migration, Remittances and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Rural Ecuador

dc.creator	Cristian Vasco
dc.date	2013
dc.date.accessioned	2022-03-22T17:46:03Z
dc.date.available	2022-03-22T17:46:03Z
dc.identifier	http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=15129650002
dc.identifier.uri	http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/87449
dc.description	Using data from the Living Standard Measurement Survey 2005-2006 for Ecuador, this paper analyzes the impact of migration and remittances on the likelihood of rural households owning a business. The results show that neither migration nor remittances have any effect on the odds of a household owning a rural business. Instead, education, credit and access to services are positively correlated with the probability of owning a rural enterprise. Contrary to expectations, empirical endogeneity tests (Smith-Blundell) fail to reject the null hypothesis of exogeneity of migration, remittances and average town remittances with respect to the likelihood of business ownership.
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, A.C.
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=151
dc.rights	Migraciones Internacionales
dc.source	Migraciones Internacionales (México) Num.1 Vol.7
dc.subject	Demografía
dc.subject	International migration
dc.subject	remittances
dc.subject	rural entrepreneurship
dc.subject	Ecuador
dc.subject	South America
dc.title	Migration, Remittances and Entrepreneurship: The Case of Rural Ecuador
dc.type	artículo científico