This paper presents a series of rural-urban net migration by age and sex for Brazil as a whole and the five major regions. They refer to the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and the first half of the 90s. Based on this, it was possible to analyze the importance of the rural-urban migration of each major...

Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish...

This paper relates strategic parental fertility behavior and early childhood human capital investments to prospective labor market opportunities in Vietnam. Suitability of land for plough adoption is shown to influence both traditional post-marital residence rules and contemporary under-5 sex...

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

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...

Internal migration flows from rural to urban areas have greatly contributed to population declines in many rural areas across both Europe and the US. At the same time there is mounting evidence for a tight connection between internal migration and shifts in labor demand, with the latter being...

Internal migration flows from rural to urban areas have greatly contributed to population declines in many rural areas across both Europe and the US. At the same time there is mounting evidence for a tight connection between internal migration and shifts in labor demand, with the latter being...