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's migration behavior at the global level. Using the individual-level survey data from Gallup World Poll across 139 countries over … migration, although budgetary constraints may prevent youth from transforming their migration desires into actual plans in low … turned into more concrete plans. Finally, this study shows that while youth's and adults' migration propensities are often …
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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 …: Using a unique migration household survey in Senegal, we estimate multinomial logit models to analyze the role of childhood …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178292
migration phenomenon had been amplified and there is an increased young people migration from emergent countries to the innovat … contribute to the amplified migration among youths. We have also highlighted the motivational elements for returning to homeland …
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In the research and reports on international migration, relatively little sustained academic scholarship addresses the … impacts and implications of migration for youth and children whose families migrate or who themselves migrate to other … developing countries. In the international debate on migration, scant attention has been given to children, and few statistics on …
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This research examines the effect of internally displaced persons (IDPs) resettlement on the anthropometric outcomes of the host community's children in Nigeria. Our identification strategy characterizes affected children based on distance heterogeneities between the household and the closest...
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We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...
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We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294782
This paper examines the impact of agrarian structures on the migration behavior and destination of rural household … heads and individuals in Kenya. To explore the complexity of migration we extend the standard Harris-Todaro framework to … also consider rural-to-rural migration. Using logistic regressions, we show that Kenyan household heads born in districts …
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In this paper we study the impact of tenure security on rural to urban migration of household members over the age of … lower probability of migration in rural Tanzania. This result is consistent with the idea that better property rights over … security is a key policy concern in curbing rural - urban migration at early stages of development. …
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