This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation … average. Overall, urbanization improves migrants' risk appetite, and mediated by this improvement, migrants are more likely to … effects. Taking advantage of the unique hukou system in the People's Republic of China, we initiate a quasi-experiment method …

China's central government has rightfully recognized that successful urbanization will be decisive for the nation … in China, the paper calls for a housing strategy that accommodates the surging waves of rural to urban migration, one of … the main drivers of urbanization, and that provides migrants with greater urban socio-economic opportunities, improves …

. This research was done in the region of greater Khartoum in the Sudan which was the destination of migration of 5 million … the destination of migration. Generally, there is a low degree of agricultural development, but over the time, differences … are emerging. There is a general tendency that all the migrants wish to return to their homeland, but the concrete …

European Refugee Crisis. We attribute the recent widening to decreased assimilation rates of new immigrants caused by a reduced … found among migrants who are female, highly educated, proficient in the host language, self-employed and working in …

toward rural-to-urban migrants and the impacts of prejudice on rural migrants' integration into urban communities. The … with urban hukou at birth, are more prejudiced toward rural migrants. Given that hukou status at birth is tied to the … migrants' integration, prejudice reduces their perceived social standing and increases the number of livelihood problems …

-level dataset from the Chinese Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we evidence the disadvantage that internal migrants face related to … extreme overcrowding. We find that renters, whether natives or internal migrants, are more likely to suffer extreme … overcrowding than homeowners, nationally and in most Chinese regions. However both rural and urban migrants are less likely to be …