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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States
Bankston, Carl L.; Zhou, Min - 2018
In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943821
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Invisible, successful, and divided Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s
Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018
Until the 1970s, only 1000 Vietnamese lived in West and East Germany, most of them international students. West Germany, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around 35,000 "boat people" from Viet Nam and other countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943822
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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveys
Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018
, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). We link individuals' current outcomes to those in prior years and to their parents' outcomes. We … first isolate the outcomes of interest - income, employment status, household wealth based on both productive and non … in individuals' outcomes across years and generations are made functions of pre-existing socioeconomic status …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943842
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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 minimum temperatures in the growing season as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943893
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Social networks, role models, peer effects, and aspirations
Mani, Anandi; Riley, Emma - 2019
We review the literature on pathways through which social networks may influence social mobility in developing countries. We find that social networks support members in tangible ways-via access to opportunities for migration, credit, trading relationships, information on jobs, and new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423986
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Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in Mozambique
Ibraimo, Maimuna; Egger, Eva-Maria - 2023
Internal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country. This study describes Mozambique's most common migration patterns from 1992 until 2017 using data from three population censuses. We focus on the most important moves between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477575
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Economic geography determinants of spatial wage disparities in South Africa: Evidence from a firm-level panel
Mulumba, Sanduku; Edwards, Lawrence; Fadiran, David … - 2024
In this paper, we use the new economic geography (NEG) framework to estimate the extent to which spatial wage disparities in the South African manufacturing sector are an outcome of economic forces such as market access. To test the relationship, we use the anonymized tax data on employers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015054270
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Internal migration and crime in Brazil
Egger, Eva-Maria - 2019
Empirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants. In this paper, I provide the first evidence of the effect of internal migration on crime with longitudinal data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423978
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Migrants leaving mega-cities: Where they move and why prices matter
Egger, Eva-Maria - 2019
Traditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect. In this paper I show that in Brazil as many people move out of as into metropolitan cities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423979
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Youth in Tanzania's urbanizing mining settlements: Prospecting a mineralized future
Bryceson, Deborah Fahy - 2014
Over the last fifteen years many African countries have experienced a mining take-off. Mining activities have bifurcated into two sectors: large-scale, capital-intensive production generating the bulk of the exported minerals, and small-scale, labour-intensive artisanal mining, which, at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343199