Rural–Urban Migration, Household Vulnerability, and Welfare in Vietnam

Nguyen, Loc; Raabe, Katharina; Grote, Ulrike

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.11.002

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“…They focused on the impact of remittances (Lucas and Stark 1985), the determinants of the decision to migrate, and the effect of this decision on the welfare of rural communities (Nguyen et al 2008(Nguyen et al , 2009(Nguyen et al , 2015. Lipton (1980) argued that the impact of migration depends not only on the transfer of remittances and the number of migrants involved but also on the length of absence.…”

Section: Iza Journal Of Development and Migrationmentioning

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“…According to the 2009 Census, 6.6 million people migrated internally in Vietnam between 2004 and 2009. Accordingly, there are several studies which aimed at analyzing the determinants and impacts of migration in Vietnam; they find that the majority of migrants move because of economic reasons (e.g., Niimi et al 2009;UNFPA 2006UNFPA , 2010Dang et al 2003) and that migration helps in reducing poverty and improving the welfare of rural households by increasing their per capita income via remittances (Nguyen et al, 2015). However, to the best of our knowledge, there has been no study that deals with the length of migration and/or migration intensity in Vietnam.…”

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“…In terms of village characteristics, the variable "Access to the Internet" is positive and statistically significant, which indicates that better communication infrastructure in the (Nguyen et al, 2015), and the duration of migration of these migrants is more likely longer than the duration of migration of migrants from Dak Lak province. Since Dak Lak province is located in the High Land region where job opportunities are plenty in coffee and wooden processing sectors, rural residents are less likely to out-migrate to find a job and migrants also have to return home for taking care their household's business.…”

Section: Determining the Length Of Migrationmentioning

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“…Thus, migration is not only a coping strategy in response to shocks, including agricultural and economic shocks, but also a strategy for livelihood diversification of original households (Nguyen et al, 2015).…”

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

Nguyen

Grote

Sharma

2017

IZA J Develop Migration

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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. The findings show that migrants coming from rural households that faced a higher number of idiosyncratic shocks increase their stays in the cities, while those from households that experienced covariate shocks such as floods, droughts, or economic shocks shorten the lengths of their stays in the cities. An increased length of migration is also observed among migrants and households with higher human capital. Furthermore, a decreased income gap between rural and urban provinces due to the higher economic growth in the cities increases the duration of migration. With respect to the migration intensity, migrants intend to return sooner when they face shocks in the cities and the living conditions at their original places improve.JEL Classification: D13, J28, J61, O15, O18, Z13

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“…More crucially is that this rate is expected to last until 2050, making the effects of urbanization a very relevant topic today. Moreover, urban population clustering is predicted to have an array of consequences as rural urban migration is paired with changes in working and living conditions, lifestyles and incomes (Nguyen et al 2013). …”

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Urbanization and the Two Tails of Malnutrition in Tanzania

Ameye

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIt is increasingly recognized that urbanization is accompanied by profound changes in African diets. Some studies hold the hope that urbanization will help eradicate hunger and undernourishment, both still prominent issues in the region. Others have warned that urbanization may actually shift the problem from the left to the right tail of the food consumption distribution, with urban diets being dominated by high-calorie processed foods and an excessive intake of oil and sugar.Throughout the literature, most datasets simply provide aggregated nutritional information and lack the necessary level of granularity hampering investigation into these issues. Most studies also aggregate everything from small towns to megacities into a single 'urban' category, potentially missing important heterogeneity with respect to dietary change. This paper overcomes these problems by using a dataset of 1,498 households from Tanzania, each of whom completed a 2-week consumption diary that records detailed information on the quantity and characteristics of all food consumed. This allows us to calculate the macro-and micronutrient content of these diets. Dietary differences across urban and rural households are documented using OLS regressions and the doubly robust estimation method. These analyses are split into separate income groups to account for income heterogeneity. Our results caution against generalizations about urban diets as "right tail" theories have done. Firstly, we observe that the average urban household has a more wholesome diet indicating that micronutrient deficiencies are less prominent. This thus contradicts theories stating that urban diets are unhealthy. On the one hand, low and middle income urban households from our sample area meet the daily recommended values of most nutrients, making their diet more fulfilling compared to that of rural households. On the other hand, rich urban and rural households are found to overconsume, yet urban households tend to be less extreme. Secondly, when disaggregating urban areas into various categories, it is found that secondary towns present favourable diets and although larger cities such as Dodoma and Dar Es Salaam show higher levels of consumption, sufficient micronutrients are taken in and unhealthy substances do not reach alarmingly high levels.

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Does relative deprivation induce migration? Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa

Kafle¹,

Benfica²,

Winters³

2020

American J Agri Economics

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This paper revisits the decades-old relative deprivation theory of migration. In contrast to the traditional view which portrays absolute income maximization as a driver of migration, we test whether relative deprivation induces migration in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. Taking advantage of the internationally comparable longitudinal data from integrated household and agriculture surveys from Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda, we use panel fixed effects to estimate the effects of relative deprivation on migration. We find that a household's migration decision is based not only on its wellbeing status but also on the relative position of the household in the wellbeing distribution of the local community. Results are robust to alternative specifications including pooled data across the five countries and the 'migrationrelative deprivation' relationship is amplified in rural, agricultural, and male-headed households. Results imply a need to renew the discussion of relative deprivation as a cause of migration. Acknowledegment:JEL Codes: D31, O15 #450 Does relative deprivation induce migration? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa Abstract:This paper revisits the decades-old relative deprivation theory of migration. In contrast to the traditional view which portrays absolute income maximization as a driver of migration, we test whether relative deprivation induces migration in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. Taking advantage of the internationally comparable longitudinal data from integrated household and agriculture surveys from Tanzania, Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda, we use panel fixed effects to estimate the effects of relative deprivation on migration. We find that a household's migration decision is based not only on its wellbeing status but also on the relative position of the household in the wellbeing distribution of the local community. Results are robust to alternative specifications including pooled data across the five countries and the 'migrationrelative deprivation' relationship is amplified in rural, agricultural, and male-headed households.Results imply a need to renew the discussion of relative deprivation as a cause of migration. JEL codes: O15; J61; D31

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Rural–Urban Migration, Household Vulnerability, and Welfare in Vietnam

Cited by 162 publications

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