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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya …
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Rural-urban migration is an integral part of the structural transformation as societies move from a traditional agricultural economy to a modern economy. This process has many potential consequences for migrants. Our study focuses on the lifetime health effects of the large mid-20th century...
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Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi's slums without proper access to sanitation or affordable clean water. Children in such areas are exposed to enormous risks, health risks in particular. Using longitudinal data collected every four months during the...
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The empirical evidence of the effect of intergenerational coresidence by elderly parents and their adult children on …, with coresidence burdens on children creating disincentives for parents to invest in their health. Studying Japanese data … on the treated; and (iii) that parents with high care needs and limited resources, typically widowed mothers, are in …
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migration of adult children. Parents of migrant children also have poor memory and they are more likely to suffer serious fall …
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Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in the 2000s. Using micro data for the year 2007, this chapter attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China....
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This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
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China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...
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This report summarizes the characteristics of migration in the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its reforms and opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of migration increased rapidly and long-term migration is...
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