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Legal identity and access to the state in South Africa
Nsabimana, Aimable; Pleace, Michelle; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2024
Legal identity is an important aspect of securing access to public services, such as education, healthcare, and social protection services, including child support grants. In the South African context, in the post-apartheid period, many poor South Africans benefited from wellorganized civil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054188
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319838
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Securitized reception: Revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants
Su, Phi Hong; Hakimi, Hameed - 2021
In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, 'Forced migration and inequality', one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and … revisit the contributions of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies special issue that resulted from that earlier project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807498
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Drivers of poverty reduction in lagging regions: Evidence from rural Western China
Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei; Wang, Sangui - 2010
Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much promise. Labour mobility has also been important in Gansu....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280210
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Economic integration of Afghan refugees in the US, 1980-2015
Stempel, Carl; Alemi, Qais - 2018
physical and mental disability resulting from pre-migration and migration traumas, and inability to develop occupational niches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943856
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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influences
Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019
Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host-country' populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate 'better' economic integration? This paper, and the broader collection of studies that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146587
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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveys
Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018
This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943842
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The legacy of conflict: Aggregate evidence from Sierre Leone
Hönig, Tillman - 2021
explicitly take into account general equilibrium effects such as selective migration in response to the war, I then develop an … particular, I leverage the structure of the model along with observed income information and migration flows to identify firm … effect. Selective migration in response to the war also seems to play an important role and implies that local reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651175
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Following in their footsteps: An analysis of the impact of successive migration on rural household welfare in Ghana
Egge, Eva-Maria; Litchfield, Julie A. - 2018
. We explore patterns of migration within rural households and the impact that these later migrants have on household … lower migration costs, and few of them remit. We find no effect of sending a new migrant on the asset index. We conclude … that the different nature of migration of new migrants implies neither an economic gain for the household nor a loss. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943829
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Climate change, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese households
Baronchelli, Adelaide; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2018
This paper analyses the relationship between climate and migration in rural households in Viet Nam. We propose an … instrumental variable approach that controls for the potential endogeneity between crop production and migration using monthly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943893