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Migration and Urbanization in Francophone West Africa: A review of the recent empirical evidence.

Beauchemin, Cris; Bocquier, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine - 2004

Cette contribution se propose de réexaminer le rôle des migrations dans l’urbanisation du monde en développement, en …

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Mekong Mainstream Dams: Threatening Southeast Asia's Food Security

eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2010

major fish migrations that feed and provide income to millions of people. …

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Those in Kayes. The impact of remittances on the recipients in Africa

Azam, Jean-Paul; Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2005

This article briefly describes the Soninke labor migration, and interprets it as a means of diversifying risk in a context of missing insurance and credit markets. Historical and anthropological studies on this ethnic group are briefly surveyed, and suggest that it is not only the well-being of...

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Changement climatique et enjeux de sécurité

Ambrosi, Philippe; Hallegatte, Stéphane - HAL - 2005

Quels sont les liens entre changement climatique et enjeux de sécurité ? C'est ce que se propose d'explorer cet article en considérant d'abord les menaces qu'il fait peser sur la sécurité humaine, seul ou conjugué à d'autres facteurs. En sont présentés les exemples les plus...

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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

Casari, Marco; Lisciandra, Maurizio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...

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How do strong social ties shape youth migration trajectories (using data from the Russian on-line social network www.vk.com)

Zamyatina, Nadezhda; Yashunsky, Alexey - European Regional Science Association - 2013

migrations between cities shows us that the force of strong ties is sometimes greater than the force of a distance or of the … agglomeration effect: some very distant and small cities are tied closely by migrations flows. We tend to explain the high level of … migrations flows moved to the Russian capital and to the region centers. Yet, excluding such flows, we can see the concentration …

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Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda

Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re-settlement policy on household agricultural...

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Normes du travail, migrations internes et emploi : une analyse théorique

Bazillier, Rémi - HAL - 2008

Cet article vise à déterminer l'impact de la mise en place de normes de travail sur le niveau de dualisme, d'emploi et de salaire dans le secteur traditionnel et dans le secteur moderne. Contrairement aux idées reçues, nous montrons que le renforcement du dualisme lié à l'amélioration des...

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Migrants' Remittances and the Household in Africa: A Review of Evidence

Azam, Jean-Paul; Gubert, Flore - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2006

This paper reviews some of the microeconomic evidence concerning migration and remittances in Africa. After a brief survey of the literature, it draws some lessons from two surveys performed in the Senegal River valley in Mali and in Senegal. The paper makes two main points. First, migration...

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Are there Returns to Migration Experience? An Empirical Analysis Using Data on Return Migrants and Non-Migrants in West Africa

Robilliard, Anne-Sophie; Gubert, Flore; de Vreyer, Philippe - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2010

Does migrants’ experience abroad provide an earnings premium for wage earners and/or a productivity advantage for entrepreneurs? In terms of earnings, we find that experience abroad results in a substantial wage premium for migrants returning from an OECD country but not for other return...

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