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Migrating out of mega-cities : evidence from Brazil

Egger, Eva-Maria - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-35

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 article, the author shows that in Brazil as many people move out as into metropolitan...

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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...

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Internal migration in Spain : a complementary approach

Maza, Adolfo - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 3/59, pp. 1-23

This study examines the determinants of internal migration of working-age population among provinces in Spain in the aftermath of the economic crisis. It pays special attention to two features of migration that have not been sufficiently studied so far: (a) Distance, namely the differences...

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Risk attitudes and household migration decisions

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Meng, Xin; … - 2017

This paper analyses the relation between individual migrations and the risk attitudes of other household members when migration is a household decision. We develop a simple model that implies that which member migrates depends on the distribution of risk attitudes among all household members,...

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Peer Effects, Parental Migration and Children's Human Capital : A Spatial Equilibrium Analysis in China

Huang, Zibin - 2021

parents and children will increase, and the average human capital in the society will also increase. Low-skill families from … in good public schools and alleviates the left-behind children problem. Second, it attracts more parents to take their …

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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 …

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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...

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Staying in the cities or returning home? : an analysis of the rural-urban migration behavior in Vietnam

Nguyen, Loc Duc; Grote, Ulrike; Sharma, Rasadhika - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 3, pp. 1-18

This paper investigates the migration behavior of rural-urban migrants within Vietnam. It focuses on the length and intensity of migration and its respective determinants. The analysis uses panel data of 2200 rural households and data from a migrant tracking survey of 299 migrants from Vietnam....

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The effect of parental migration on the educational attainment of their left-behind children in rural China

Wang, Sophie Xuefei - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 14 (2014) 3, pp. 1037-1080

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Parental Unemployment and Child Health in China

Pieters, Janneke - 2016

This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel data for the period 1997-2004, when the country underwent economic reforms leading to massive layoffs. We find that paternal unemployment reduces child health, while maternal...

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