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This study aims to examine current land access and youth livelihood opportunities in Southern Ethiopia. Access to … agricultural land is a constitutional right for rural residents of Ethiopia. We used survey data from the relatively land abundant … livelihood. The law prohibits the purchase and sale of land in Ethiopia. We found that land access through allocation from …
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …
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This paper explores migration from Bihar, one of the most underdeveloped states in India, by paying particular … findings on the determinants of migration, based on our field survey of 200 households in four villages in 2011. In terms of … decisions regarding migration moves in, with the decline in probability becoming less and less. This result confirms a non …
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In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can...
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This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …
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To explain the links between population distribution and economic integration, we construct a spatial economics model with endogenous fertility. A higher population concentration increases real wages and child-raising costs, thus lowering the fertility rate. However, people migrate to more...
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To explain the links between population distribution and economic integration, we construct a spatial economics model with endogenous fertility. A higher population concentration increases real wages and child-raising costs, thus lowering the fertility rate. However, people migrate to more...
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This research was carried out to appraise the influence of fertility and migration on the age-sex population structure … migration trends in the study area. Using partial correlation and multiple regression analyses, we determined the influence of … migration and fertility on the age structure of the population. The combined effects of the partial correlation of fertility and …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient isuues in contemporary China. China's aging population threatens the fiscal sustainability of its pension system, a key vehicle for intergenerational redistribution. We analyze the positive and normative effects of alternative pension...
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emigration? This paper analyses whether family migration is affected by the existence of primary schools. We conduct an empirical … affect migration behaviour. After school closure municipalities experience a decrease in in-migration. Unexpectedly …, controlling for cohort size, unobserved heterogeneity as well as for neighbourhood effects yields higher out-migration prior to …
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