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Where are migrants from? : inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China
Su, Yaqin; Tesfazion, Petros; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter-provincial migrants, and examining the differences in their personal attributes. We find that migrants who have...
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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of shocks, predominantly climate shocks, on labor market outcomes in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the differential effects of shocks on migrants and non-migrants. Our...
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Welfare magnets and internal migration in China
Jin, Zhangfeng - 2020
This study examines the causal effects ofwelfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimentalmigration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, Ishowthat improvedwelfarebenefitssubstantially increasemigration....
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Temporary international migration, shocks and informal insurance : analysis using panel data
Chakraborty, Tanika; Pandey, Manish - 2021
. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration … trade-off between two effects of a shock for a household: loss of income and increase in the need of labor services. We show … that migration increases when the former effect of a shock dominates, it reduces when the latter effect dominates. We …
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Natural hazards and internal migration : the role of transient versus permanent shocks
Pavel, Tanvir; Hasan, Syed; Halim, Nafisa; Mozumde, Pallab - 2018
We analyse internal migration triggered by natural disasters in Bangladesh. We conducted a survey in nine coastal districts and two major cities in Bangladesh to investigate whether floods and cyclones, which can be considered as transient shocks, affect interregional migration differently...
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Son preference and human capital investment among China's rural-urban migrant households
Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018
We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
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Social networks and mental health outcomes : Chinese rural-urban migrant experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million Chinese rural workers have migrated to cities to work. They are separated from their familiar rural networks to work in an unfamiliar, and often hostile environment. Many of them thus face significant mental health challenges. This paper is the...
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Will urban migrants formally insure their rural relatives? : family networks and rainfall index insurance in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were...
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Hukou status and children's education in China
Sun, Yue; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2024
Under China's household registration (hukou) system, children with rural hukou lack equal access to education in urban areas. This paper investigates the causal effect of hukou status on children's education by exploiting an exogenous change in hukou status induced by the hukou reform in 1998....
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Do refugees with better mental health better integrate? : evidence from the building a new life in Australia longitudinal survey
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Trong Anh Trinh; Verme, Paolo - 2021
Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Analyzing the Building a New...
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