Land Ownership as a Determinant of International and Internal Migration in Mexico and Internal Migration in Thailand1

From: The International Migration Review | Date: April 1, 2005| Author: VanWey, Leah K | Copyright information

This study focuses on the effect of land ownership on internal and international out-migration in Mexico and on internal out-migration in Thailand. Land can impact migration in four ways: as wealth; as employment; as an investment opportunity; and through inequality in ownership. Discrete time event history models of individual migration, using data from the Mexican Migration Project (covering Western Mexico) and data from the Nang Rong Project (covering one district in Northeast Thailand), s...

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