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context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703408
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325099
context of increasing urban poverty in Nairobi, Kenya. The findings indicate that households who migrated together with their … children in the slums of Nairobi experience higher child morbidity (43 per cent have at least one sick child in the last one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005642153
This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011650719
"This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732068
"This paper tests the empirical validity of the neoclassical migration model in predicting German internal migration flows. We estimate static and dynamic migration functions for 97 Spatial Planning Regions between 1996 and 2006 using key labor market signals including income and unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872020
Between one and two million migrants reside in cramped conditions in Nairobi’s slums without proper access to … event history analysis, childhood mortality is shown to remain very high in the Nairobi informal settlements, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233905
theoretically informed biographic disruption theory. Setting: Interviews were conducted in two Nairobi slums (Kenya). Participants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126336
The empirical evidence of the effect of intergenerational coresidence by elderly parents and their adult children on parental health remains fairly inconclusive. The aim of this paper is twofold: (1) to estimate a reliable coresidence effect and (2) to investigate why the coresidence effect can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041208
Limited literature has been published on the association between environmental health indicators, life-style habits and ambient air pollution. We have examined the association of asthma prevalence and the amount of health investment with daily mean concentrations of particulate matter (PM) with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462708