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Narciso, Gaia - 2015

This paper provides an overview of the characteristics of migrant households and analyses the effects of migration in … that remittances and migration act as a shock-coping mechanism, especially in the presence of natural shocks. Remittance …

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Drivers of poverty reduction in lagging regions: Evidence from rural Western China

Christiaensen, Luc; Pan, Lei; Wang, Sangui - 2010

Using 2000-04 panel data this study analyses the pathways rural households followed out of poverty in two lagging provinces of China, Inner Mongolia and Gansu. Rising labour productivity in agriculture has been key, and still holds much promise. Labour mobility has also been important in Gansu....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280210

Social policies or private solidarity? The equalizing role of migration and remittances in El Salvador

Acevedo, Carlos; Cabrera, Maynor - 2012

of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007

Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...

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Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19

Barker, Nathan; Davis, C. Austin; López-Peña, Paula; … - 2020

Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 … and observational variation in prior migration dependence. We report 25 per cent greater declines in earnings and fourfold … greater prevalence of food insecurity among migrant households since March. Causes include lower migration rates, less …

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Globalizing Shanghai: International migration and the global city

Shen, Wei - 2010

understand the relationship and linkage between global cities and the migration of talents. By using the case study of the … circulating network and mobility of Chinese student migration from elite business schools in France to illustrate its role in …

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Women and landed property in urban India: Negotiating closed doors and windows of opportunity

Baruah, Bipasha - 2010

This paper examines land tenure in informal urban settlements in India from a gender perspective through field research conducted in Ahmedabad in collaboration with the Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA). The author describes the formal and informal tenure arrangements that were in place...

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Fiscal decentralization and urbanization in Indonesia

Comola, Margherita; de Mello, Luiz - 2010

Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking and service delivery functions to the subnational tiers of government (provinces and districts). This process is likely to have affected regional patterns of urbanization, because...

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The international circulation of elites: Knowledge, entrepreneurial and political

Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010

International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites …

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The impact of hosting refugees on the intra-household allocation of tasks: A gender perspective

Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2017

This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in the hosting population. Using panel data (pre- and post-refugee inflow) from Kagera, a rural region of Tanzania, we find that the refugee shock led to women being less likely to...

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