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Circular migration : a view from destination households in two urban informal settlements in South Africa
Posel, Dorrit; Marx, Colin - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 49 (2013) 6, pp. 819-831
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Migrating out of mega-cities : evidence from Brazil
Egger, Eva-Maria - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-35
Traditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect. In this article, the author shows that in Brazil as many people move out as into metropolitan...
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Unequal Migration and Urbanisation Gains in China
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2019
We assess the role of internal migration and urbanisation in China on the nominal earnings of three groups of workers (rural migrants, low-skilled natives, and high-skilled natives). We estimate the impact of many city and city-industry characteristics that shape agglomeration economies, as well...
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...
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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026668
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China’s 'New Generation' Rural-Urban Migrants : Migration Motivation and Migration Patterns
Hu, Xiaochu - 2012
The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio-demographic policy changes, this cohort of...
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Urbanization and International Migration From Africa
Ferri, Giovanni; Borsato, Roshan - 2018
Climate change exacerbates desertification forcing millions of rural people to urbanize, especially in developing countries. Our quantitative analysis across African countries highlights migrants’ two typical sequential moves: i) people escape from villages to cities; ii) through cities’...
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Why do rural people temporarily migrate to other rural areas? : insights from northern Bangladesh
Rana, Md. Sohel; Qaim, Matin - 2023
Migration from rural to urban areas is common in many low- and middle-income countries. However, temporary migration from rural to other rural areas also occurs and is not well understood. We explore what drives rural people in Bangladesh to migrate temporarily to other rural areas, rather than...
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Family migration in China : do migrant children affect parental settlement intention?
Wang, Chunchao; Zhang, Chenglei; Ni, Jinlan; Zhang, Haifeng - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 47 (2019) 2, pp. 416-428
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Migration, location and provision of support to old-age parents : the case of Romania
Zimmer, Zachary; Rada, Codrina; Stoica, Catalin Augustin - 2013
for older parents who face a potential decline in support from adult children. These developments also impact the lives of … migrant adults who face the challenge of providing support to aging parents from a distance. Systematic data that allow … examination of associations between the location of migrants and the provision of support to aging parents are difficult to find …
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