Rural-urban migrants represent a random selection
Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
... other migrants. For the latter, we use some information about whether migrants live close to other people of same origin in the city ...vis-à-vis rural income and vis-à-vis other migrants in ...
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
... other migrants. For the latter, we use some information about whether migrants live close to other people of same origin in the city ...vis-à-vis rural income and vis-à-vis other migrants in ...
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
... other migrants. For the latter, we use some information about whether migrants live close to other people of same origin in the city ...vis-à-vis rural income and vis-à-vis other migrants in ...
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Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
... positive selection for individuals who choose ...negative selection bias driven by the correlation between the employment and wage equation is confirmed-albeit less precisely ...that migrants are ...
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Obesity risk in rural, urban and rural-to-urban migrants: prospective results of the PERU MIGRANT study.
... from rural to urban areas, primarily because of political violence targeted at rural ...of rural-to-urban migration in the development of obesity in a context with less selection ...
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Smoking and heavy drinking patterns in rural, urban and rural-to-urban migrants: the PERU MIGRANT Study.
... over 350 thousands and our rural setting less than 1000 inhabitants. The baseline study was conducted in 2006–2007 after a general census in both study settings. A single-stage random sampling, stratified ...
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Self-selection and Earnings of Migrants: Evidence from Rural China
... that rural-to-urban migration might impede industrial development in rural ...total rural unemployment, building public networks to provide rural workers with information about jobs and ...
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The Contribution of Rural Urban Migration to Migrants’ Economic Development in Tamale
... to represent the types of sanitation facilities in this ...the rural folks was location driven since many rural areas and homes are closer to bushy environment coupled with the scattered nature of ...
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Essays on urban wage premium, returns to internal migration and migrants' selection in Norway
... I next develop a framework that combines all three types of agglomeration economies in one model by including an urban dummy and allowing the returns to experience and each job change to differ by location. ...
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Comparison of access to health services among urban-to-urban and rural-to-urban older migrants, and urban and rural older permanent residents in Zhejiang Province, China: a cross-sectional survey
... adults: urban-to-urban migrants, rural-to-urban migrants, urban and rural permanent ...recruit urban older permanent resi- dents from May to August 2013 in ...
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Mental Health and Risk Behaviors of Rural-Urban Migrants: Longitudinal Evidence from Indonesia
... addressing selection bias and using the appropriate comparison group in studies of migration and ...of migrants should be compared to that of similar people in the place of origin, since this indicates what ...
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Psychometric evaluation of health related quality of life among rural-to-urban migrants in China
... Methods Sample and sampling procedure A cross-sectional study was designed and conducted in August, 2012, in Wuhan. Both the probability and the non-probability sampling methods were employed. First, three out of seven ...
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Rural-urban Migrants’ Remittances and the Physical Health Status of the Left-behind Children in Rural Areas of Niger State, Nigeria
... in rural areas of Niger State, ...a random sample of 45 left- behind households were selected, such that data on 405 left-behind children and their caregivers were obtained from the selected ...
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Rural Migrants in Urban Setting: A Study Conducted at City Sargodha, Pakistan
... design, selection criteria for respondents, study sites, sampling procedures, and sample size, construction of measuring instruments, pilot study or pre-testing and measures adopted during development of ...
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The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach
... Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or ...among ...
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Social-family network and self-employment: evidence from temporary rural–urban migrants in China
... of rural–urban migration in China has determined that the first-time migrants face a great deal of uncertainty and almost always consider the move ...largely random, depending on where some ...
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Social-Family Network and Self-Employment: Evidence from Temporary Rural-Urban Migrants in China
... Opening the restaurant is only a start. The owner then has to continuously think about how to attract more customers, where to find dependable suppliers of raw food, and how to cut costs; he needs to figure out the ...
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Rural-urban migrants and urban employment in Ghana : A case study of rural migrants from Northern Region to Kumasi
... how migrants left the rural area to the city, the jobs they do in the city, the challenges they encounter and their coping strategies as well as the use of the outcomes of their employment ...4 ...
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Social Integration of Rural Migrants in Urban Wuhan
... Those migrants whose families have no telephones in their rural home must call neighbors or relatives who have a telephone and instruct the person with whom they wish to speak to answer the phone, which may ...
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China's policy on rural-urban migrants and urban social harmony
... all rural migrants have readily accepted the unfair ...few rural migrants have opted to commit suicide when their basic rights were ...among rural migrant workers; some of them found it ...
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