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Internal migration and crime in BrazilTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW/. Empirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants...
Brazil Crime Internal migrationJournal Article
Migrating out of mega-cities: Evidence from BrazilTraditional 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...
Brazil Internal migration PricesWorking Paper
Migrants leaving mega-cities: Where they move and why prices matterTraditional 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...
Brazil Internal migration PricesWorking Paper
Internal migration and crime in BrazilEmpirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants...
Brazil Crime Internal migrationWorking Paper
The effect of Hukou registration policy on rural-to-urban migrants’ healthAccess to social services in China is connected to a system of household registration (Hukou system) determined by place of origin with difficult geographical transferability...
Internal migration Hukou registration system Health outcomesBlog
Migration and the transfer of gender and democratic normsDespite the large attention received in the global development debate over the past years, gender inequalities still strongly persist throughout the world. Similarly, democratic and equal institutions are far from standing firm in all countries...
Emigration and immigration Human capital Internal migrationWorking Paper
Labour and migration in rural VietnamThis paper provides an overview of the characteristics of migrant households and analyses the effects of migration in Vietnam, on the basis of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey conducted in 2012 and 2014...
Emigrant remittances Households Labour mobilityWorking Paper
Poverty and Ethnicity Among Black South AfricansThis paper investigates inequalities across the major black ethnic groups in South Africa, accounting for 80 per cent of the country’s population...
Ethnic relations Income Internal migrationBook Chapter
Social Policies or Private Solidarity?: The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El SalvadorFrom the book: Falling Inequality in Latin America
Emigrant remittances Equality and inequality Internal migrationWorking Paper
Social Policies or Private Solidarity?: The Equalizing Role of Migration and Remittances in El SalvadorThis paper reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s...
Emigrant remittances Equality and inequality Internal migrationBook Chapter
Globalization and Exclusionary Urban Growth in Asian CountriesFrom the book: Urbanization and Development in Asia
Globalization Internal migration Government policy (Poor)Book Chapter
Globalizing Shanghai: International Migration and the Global CityFrom the book: Urbanization and Development in Asia
Emigration and immigration Labour mobility Internal migrationBook Chapter
Fiscal Decentralization and Urbanization in IndonesiaFrom the book: Urbanization and Development in Asia
Economic policy Labour market Labour mobilityBook Chapter
Place and Identity on the Borderland between Old and New in Shanghai: A Case StudyFrom the book: Urbanization and Development in Asia
Sociology of economics Land use Internal migrationWorking Paper
Migration and Inheritance Practices in the Bolivian AltiplanoMost theoretical approaches to inheritance assume that parents are the key actors of bequest decisions. However, in a context of important migration, children may play an active role in the inheritance process...
Inheritance and succession Land tenure Land useWorking Paper
Is Internal Migration Bad for Receiving Urban Centres?: Evidence from Brazil, 1995-2000During the twentieth century, internal migration and urbanization shaped Brazil’s economic and social landscape...
Economic development Internal migration Urban economics