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As urbanization rates rise globally, it becomes increasingly important to understand the factors associated with urban … out-migration. In this paper, we examine the drivers of urban out-migration among young adults in two medium-sized cities … factors associated with migration and a binary logit model to understand factors associated with remitting behavior. We find …
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Migration data is matched from the Indian census with climate data to test the hypothesis of climate variability as a … push factor for internal migration. The main contribution of the analysis is to introduce relevant meteorological …
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Population Census of Albania – the paper documents the phenomena of internal and external migration in Albania, a country that in … Albanian households have had direct exposure to migration events, either through direct temporary migration of a household … household’s migration decision. The role of household and community characteristics, including relative deprivation and the …
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This paper analyzes the current migration in rural population in the south of Veracruz state (Mexico). We identify … three different spaces of migration, traditional markets, the northern border and the United States. Applying a multinomial …
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Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international … capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people. Migration can expand their choices … by policy distortions, is a theme of the report. The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes …
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Indonesia has been experiencing impressive economic growth and rapid urbanization in recent years. However …, urbanization could affect income inequality through people’s movement from rural to urban areas. Using the 2010 National Labor … and tests whether a wage gap exists between them. Regression results reveal that urbanization tends to benefit male …
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Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...
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out-migration in SSA. …
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incentives can influence decisions about return migration. This paper has two aims: (1) identification of the strategies adopted … by Polish emigrants that can explain their returns to the home country and (2) the verification of two major migration … theories (the classical approach versus the "New Economics of Migration" approach). The analysis is based mainly on data coming …
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The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of … urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …
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