Este documento discute las ventajas y desventajas de la migración rural-urbana, y muestra que los costos de una mayor urbanización en Bolivia (crimen, polución, congestión, etc) son más bien pequeños comparados con los costos encontrados en otros países latinoamericanos. Los beneficios,...

The present study investigates the determinants of inter-district migration flows over the 1995-2000 period in Ghana. A combination of socio-economic, natural and spatial district-level attributes are considered as potential variables explaining the direction of migration flows. In addition to...

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are thereforeprepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, themarriage market benefits disappear while the housing...

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings....

This paper investigates the occupational attainment and job mobility of permanent ruralto-urban migrants and compares them with migrants who were born with an urban hukou. Using data from the 2003 China General Social Survey, we examine how much of the gaps in occupational-prestige scores...

Die entwicklungspolitische Strategie Chinas hat zu einem exportgetriebenen Wachstum bei gleichzeitiger Bildung von Wachstumspolen im Inland geführt. Damit avancierte das Land zu einem der exportstärksten Länder der Welt und zu einem Financier auf den internationalen Kapitalmärkten. Diese...

This article explores the process of labour market integration in the border region of Saxony, Poland and the Czech Republic. The underlying understanding of integration is combining institutional factors and the behaviour of market players. The sources of this conceptual framework stem from...

Wie überall in Deutschland zieht es auch in Sachsen die Bevölkerung in die Städte. Entsprechend steigen die Kaufpreise für Wohnimmobilien – auch im näheren Umland zu den Großstädten. Allerdings ist die Wohnkostenbelastung in Sachsen im Vergleich zu anderen Regionen Deutschlands immer...