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New roles for marriage in urban Africa : kinship networks and the labor market in Kenya
Luke, Nancy; Munshi, Kaivan - In: The review of economics and statistics 88 (2006) 2, pp. 264-282
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003337193
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Do children matter? Family migration as human capital investment mechanism: evidence from the ninteenth century Bohemia
Klein, Alexander - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451678
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All in the family: a dynasty approach to household migration evidence from the 19th century Austro-Hungarian empire
Klein, Alexander - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003161891
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One family, two households : rural to urban migration in Kenya
Agesa, Richard U. - In: Review of Economics of the Household 2 (2004) 2, pp. 161-178
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002138440
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Will Urban Migrants Formally Insure Their Rural Relatives? Family Networks and Rainfall Index Insurance in Burkina Faso
Kazianga, Harounan - 2018
We present findings from a pilot study exploring whether and how existing ties between urban migrants and rural farmers may be used to provide the latter improved access to formal insurance. Urban migrants in Ouagadougou (the capital of Burkina Faso) originating from nearby villages were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918576
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Social-family network and self-employment : evidence from temporary rural-urban migrants in China/ Junfu Zhang; Zhong Zhao
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test … this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is … social-family network exactly because he is self-employed. For this reason, a simple correlation between the probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125024
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Rural Out-Migration and Family Life in Cities in Mongolia
Shi, Anqing - 2011
There is a growing concern among policy makers and the international development community about the rapid concentration of migrants in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar (UB) and its social, economic, and environmental consequences (UNDP, 2003). These concerns call for a good understanding of the...
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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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Family education support to rural migrant children in China : evidence from Shenzhen
Jin, Xiaoyi; Liu, Hongsheng; Liu, Lige - In: Eurasian geography and economics 58 (2017) 2, pp. 169-200
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The influence of income and working time of rural migrant workers on health : the mediating effect of life stress and the moderating effect of marital status
Yang, Chunjiang - In: Human systems management : HSM 39 (2020) 1, pp. 69-80
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