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The long run health consequences of rural‐urban migration

Johnson, Janna E.; Taylor, Evan J. - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 10 (2019) 2, pp. 565-606

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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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?

Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012

The population growth of cities in industrialized countries is characterized by striking disparities. While some cities experience a kind of resurgence in recent years others suffer from an ongoing depopulation. In this context an important issue refers to the question whether labour market...

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Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Zhang, Junfu - 2014

Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...

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Determinants of Regional Rural Urban Migration in Bangladesh : A Model Test on Marginal Segment in Rajshahi City

Farhana, Khandakaher Mursheda - 2020

This paper examines the factors of regional rural-urban migration in Bangladesh. Key objective of this article is to examine the results of the first phase, i.e, the findings of the 2006 survey, compare with the recent outcomes. The econometric model is developed to observe the association...

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Urbanization and risk preference in the People's Republic of China : a decomposition of the self-selection and assimilation effects

Shi, Xiaojun; Zhu, Yan - 2017

This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation effects. Taking advantage of the unique hukou system in the People's Republic of China, we initiate a quasi-experiment method to elicit the two effects, employing the 2013-wave...

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The impact of rural-urban migration on child survival

Brockerhoff, Martin P. - 1994

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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-Behind Parents

Ao, Xiang - 2015

parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left …-behind parents is ambiguous. On the one hand, the additional income from the children's jobs can allow their parents to afford better … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of …

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The impacts of parental migration on children's subjective well-being in rural China : a double-edged sword

Shen, Ke; Zhang, Yuan - In: Eurasian geography and economics 59 (2018) 2, pp. 267-289

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Network dependency in migration flows : a space-time analysis for Germany since re-unification

Mitze, Timo - 2010

The contribution of this paper is to analyse the role of network interdependencies in a dynamic panel data model for German internal migration flows since re-unification. So far, a capacious account of spatial patterns in German migration data is still missing in the empirical literature. In the...

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Testing the neoclassical migration model : overall and age-group specific results for German regions

Mitze, Timo; Reinkowski, Janina - 2010

This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...

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