Showing 1 - 10 of 93
foreign trade) and benefits from urbanization (internal migration and agglomeration effects). Simulations suggest that urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009545470
Population density gradients for South Africa's cities are quite small in absolute value, indicating a relatively flat population distribution across the cities. In contrast employment is less flatly distributed than the population. The relationship between employment densities and distance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660762
This paper examines the extent to which strategic environmental assessment (SEA) is implemented in Tanzania and whether its implementation is in line with generally practised procedures/criteria. Out of 17 completed SEA, eight cases were purposively selected and assessed by applying an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590894
Reflection about the role of corporate social investment in Brazil, associated with the presence of a large economic enterprise, is the major stimulus of this paper. It seeks to present how cross-sector governance can contribute to the social development of a city and how this process can be led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646295
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/10012796983
. 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/10011806485
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/10011806811
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/10011894294
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic … engage in long-distance migration-if they are wealthy enough to match with the desirable migrating grooms. Guided by a model … in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets will be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129346
migration. The effect of rebelocracy is driven mostly by the provision of public goods by non-state armed actors. While this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129665