@article{Stark:132550,
      recid = {132550},
      author = {Stark, Oded and Jakubek, Marcin},
      title = {Migration networks as a response to financial constraints:  Onset and endogenous dynamics},
      address = {2012-08},
      number = {1546-2016-132240},
      series = {ZEF - Discussion Papers on Development Policy},
      pages = {22},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial  cooperative agreement between financially-constrained  individuals who seek to finance and expedite their  migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network:  “established” migrants contract to support the subsequent  migration of others in exchange for receiving support  themselves. When the model is expanded to study cooperation  between more than two migrants, it emerges that there is a  finite optimal size of the migration network. Consequently,  would-be migrants in the sending country will form a  multitude of networks, rather than a single grand network.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/132550},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.132550},
}