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Family migration : a vehicle of child morbidity in the informal settlements of Nairobi City, Kenya?
Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2008
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … ; incidental truncation ; informal settlements ; Nairobi ; Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003729414
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Showing off to the new neighbors? : income, socioeconomic status and consumption patterns of internal migrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Kseniia; … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771815
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The preference for larger cities in China : evidence from rural-urban migrants
Xing, Chunbing; Zhang, Junfu - 2013
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792539
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Migration in the People's Republic of China
Lu, Ming; Xia, Yiran - 2016
This report summarizes the characteristics of migration in the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its reforms and opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of migration increased rapidly and long-term migration is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011546628
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Robotization, internal migration and rural depopulation in Austria
Bekhtiar, Karim - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256532
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Robotization, internal migration and rural depopulation in Austria
Bekhtiar, Karim - 2022
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286557
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Migrants leaving mega-cities : where they move and why prices matter
Egger, Eva-Maria - 2019
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 paper I show that in Brazil as many people move out of as into metropolitan cities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161328
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The impact of rural-urban migration on the health of the left-behind parents
Ao, Xiang; Jiang, Dawei; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left …-behind parents is ambiguous. On the one hand, the additional income from the children's jobs can allow their parents to afford better … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346750
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Shocks and rural development policies : any implications for migrants to return?
Do, Manh Hung; Nguyen, Trung Thanh; Nguyen Thanh Tung; … - 2020
This paper examines the factors affecting the decision of migrants to return home in rural areas and their length of stay in cities with a focus on shocks and rural development policies. We use the unique Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) data. Our results reveal that the decision to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166414
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Measuring the income-distance tradeoff for rural-urban migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2013
Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696892