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We argue that inter-country comparisons of income poverty based on poverty lines uniformly reflecting the costs of the … and in the construction of income poverty lines that uniformly reflect the costs of the basic requirements of human beings …
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their home driven by the pursuit to improve the well-being of their households through additional income. While the drivers … investments of migrant households into farm and non-farm assets, while the expenditure on consumption is higher compared to …
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migration decision and the impact of migration on the household's income. We employ Probit modelling and difference …. Additionally, having a migrant, increases the household’s income under two definitions, while negatively impacting the household …'s income under the other two definitions. Therefore, it is pertinent to standardize the definition of an internal migrant …
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We investigate determinants of individual migration decisions in Vietnam, a country with increasingly high levels of geographical labor mobility. Using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) of 2012, we find that probability of migration is strongly associated with...
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This paper examines the wage gap between migrants and non-migrants in large cities in Vietnam. It finds that migrants receive substantially lower wages than non-migrants. The wage gap tends to be larger for older migrants. However, once observed demographic characteristics of workers are...
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Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...
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Household consumption data are often unavailable, not fully collected, or incomparable over time in poorer countries. Survey-to-survey imputation has been increasingly employed to address these data gaps for poverty measurement, but its effective use requires standardized protocols. We refine...
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Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...
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This study examines the profile and determinants of poverty in the two largest cities in Vietnam – Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh. Data used in this study are from the 2009 Urban Poverty Survey. Using the poverty line of 12,000 thousand VND/year, the poverty incidence is estimated at 17.4 percent for...
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