Analysis of Claims Management Process & Channel Financing of Company
Analysis of Claims Management Process & Channel Financing of Company Abstract Using data gathered for the evaluation of the rural component of Oportunidades, Mexico's flagship anti-poverty programmer, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration, even if this income is primarily consumed, and that some households may use the entitlement to this income stream as collateral to finance the migration. Individuals who begin migrating as a result of this income shock come from families with no counterfactual US migrants, are in the center of the local projected wage distribution, and deteriorate migratory abilities. These findings imply that financial barriers to foreign migration bind impoverished Mexicans, some of whom would want to move but cannot afford to. If generalizable, they suggest that as economic development and anti-poverty and micro-finance initiatives remove financial restrictions for the p...