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Family migration : a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2008
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729414
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The preference for larger cities in China : evidence from rural-urban migrants
Xing, Chunbing; Zhang, Junfu - 2013
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792539
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The impact of rural-urban migration on the health of the left-behind parents
Ao, Xiang; Jiang, Dawei; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left …-behind parents is ambiguous. On the one hand, the additional income from the children's jobs can allow their parents to afford better … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of …
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Measuring the income-distance tradeoff for rural-urban migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2013
Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696892
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Migration externalities in Chinese cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...
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Village political economy, land tenure insecurity, and the rural to urban migration decision : evidence from China
Giles, John; Mu, Ren - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A simple model first frames the relationship among these variables and the probability that a reallocation of land will occur in the following year. After first demonstrating that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434464
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The impact of non-cognitive skills and risk preferences on rural-to-urban migration : evidence from Ukraine
Ayhan, Sinem H.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2017
This paper provides evidence on the impacts of non-cognitive skills and attitudes towards risk on the decision to migrate from rural to urban areas. Our analysis is based on a unique four-wave panel of Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey for the period between 2003 and 2012. Adopting the...
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The role of China's household registration system in the urban-rural income differential
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest; Moon, Soojae - 2017
Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the earnings gap. Using multiple waves of data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732057
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City size, family migration, and gender wage gap : evidence from rural-urban migrants in China
Xing, Chunbing; Yuan, Xiaoyan; Zhang, Junfu - 2022
Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large cities help alleviate the colocation problem of married couples. Using data from China, we show that...
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China's urban poor : comparing twice poverty between residents and migrants in 2013 and 2018
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2023
Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed percent of the median per-capita income and wealth below the...
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