This paper explores the factors that account for the receipt of remittances across households in Moldova who have … behaviour in Moldova. Drawing from these estimates, we conclude that altruism and investment (proxied by the level of economic … development at the regional level) are the two main motives behind remittance flows to Moldova. …

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … of migration, but out- (in-) migration shifts the origin's (destination's) age distribution. We examine theoretically and …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …

This paper analyses the occupational choice of return migrants. Using the CBSAXA data on different aspects of migration … in Moldova, we find that those who stayed illegally in the host country tend to go in wage employment on return to the …

sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market … segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration … experience is a key factor for the migration decision of rural household members, and its importance keeps increasing from 2002 …

sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in … intraprovincial non-hukou rural-urban migration, which may have made labor retention policies such as the small township strategy …

presented in the paper is general enough to estimate models of internal and external migration. We apply our framework to …

Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms … migration and, if they do, whether they will leave the children behind or not. The final choice is made to ensure the optimal …