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Why do rural people temporarily migrate to other rural areas? : insights from northern Bangladesh

Rana, Md. Sohel; Qaim, Matin - 2023

Migration from rural to urban areas is common in many low- and middle-income countries. However, temporary migration from rural to other rural areas also occurs and is not well understood. We explore what drives rural people in Bangladesh to migrate temporarily to other rural areas, rather than...

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China's urban poor : comparing twice poverty between residents and migrants in 2013 and 2018

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2023

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed percent of the median per-capita income and wealth below the...

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Urban to Urban Migration : Soviet Patterns and Post-Soviet Status

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 2014

In spite of extensive literature on migration in the Soviet Union, we know little about household-level decisions. This study specifies and estimates those variables important to understanding the migration decision. Using data from the Soviet Interview Project (SIP), we examine the forces...

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Three pillars of urbanization : migration, aging, and growth

Grafeneder-Weissteiner, Theresa; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2018

Economic development in industrialized countries is characterized by rising per capita GDP, increasing life expectancy, and an ever larger share of the population living in cities. We explain this pattern within a regional innovation-driven economic growth model with labor mobility and a...

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Jobs or amenities : what determines the migration balances of cities?

Buch, Tanja; Hamann, Silke; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; … - 2012

The population growth of cities in industrialized countries is characterized by striking disparities. While some cities experience a kind of resurgence in recent years others suffer from an ongoing depopulation. In this context an important issue refers to the question whether labour market...

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The impact of rural-urban migration on child survival

Brockerhoff, Martin P. - 1994

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Phenotype-environment mismatch due to epigenetic inheritance? : programming the offspring’s epigenome and the consequences of migration

Willführ, Kai; Myrskylä, Mikko - 2012

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Social networks and mental health problems : evidence from rural-to-urban migrants in China

Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017

Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually separated from their rural families and work in an unfamiliar, and sometimes hostile, city environment. This paper investigates to what extent city social networks alleviate mental...

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Social Networks and Mental Health Problems : Evidence from Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Meng, Xin - 2017

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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-Behind Parents

Ao, Xiang - 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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