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Does religious affiliation affect migration?

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  • Pablo Neudörfer
  • Jorge Dresdner

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type="main" xml:lang="es"> Se puso a prueba si las redes sociales en el punto de origen, medidas por su afiliación religiosa, afectan a la emigración. La premisa básica es que una pérdida de capital social está ligada a la decisión de emigrar, y que dicha pérdida aumenta los costos de migración debido a la desaparición de los beneficios recibidos de la red local en el punto de origen. Para probar esta hipótesis se estimaron modelos logit condicionales y mixtos respecto a la decisión de emigrar. Los resultados apoyan la hipótesis de que los miembros de organizaciones religiosas con fuertes lazos intracomunitarios y débiles intercomunitarios tienden a emigrar menos que otros. Este resultado fue altamente significativo y robusto, dada la especificación del modelo y los métodos de estimación.

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  • Pablo Neudörfer & Jorge Dresdner, 2014. "Does religious affiliation affect migration?," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 93(3), pages 577-594, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:presci:v:93:y:2014:i:3:p:577-594
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