Migración internacional, actividades agrícolas y distribución del ingreso en una comunidad oaxaqueña, México.

This paper explores the effect of international migration and remittances on agricultural activities and income distribution in an indigenous community that has recently massified its international migration. Models were used to relate agricultural variables to productive, social, demographic and migration financing factors at home; also, breakdown of the Gini coefficient was used to determine the effect of income sources on the distribution of total income in the community. Information comes from a 2005 survey in 35% of the households. Results show that international migration does not affect the demand for labor in agriculture or raising livestock, but it does promote agricultural production and the recovery of abandoned land. Remittances promote the livestock industry and abandoned land reclamation, but do not affect the demand for labor or agricultural production; they also have a negative, insignificant effect on total income distribution in the community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]