I studied the determinants of migration from urban Ethiopia to other countries, to rural areas and to other urban areas …. In general, the result differs by migration type. For international migration, wealth and network variables are found to … be important. It is mainly those households who have the network and/or the capacity to finance migration who send …

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

BACKGROUND: Internal migration, mostly composed of young adults and the poor, constitutes the largest flow of people in … developing countries. Few studies document the patterns and determinants of internal youth migration in sub-Saharan Africa …. METHODS: Using a unique migration household survey in Senegal, we estimate multinomial logit models to analyze the role of …

the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how … parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt … labor market conditions in destination provinces as instrumental variables for parental endogenous migration choice. We find …

' migration behavior. Using a model of migration behavior under agricultural income risk, our theoretical results suggest that … while income differentials remain crucial in determining the migration decision, they are additionally determined by the … migration as a risk coping mechanism is lower for households with a negative expected urban-to-rural income difference. Moreover …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …