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Migration out of poverty: The case of post-war migration in MozambiqueInternal migration plays an important role in the economic development of individuals, their families, and their country...
Internal migration Migration MozambiqueBook Chapter
Getting rich and unequal?: Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in ChinaFrom the book: The developer’s dilemma
Inequality Education MigrationJournal Article
Temperature shocks, rice production, and migration in Vietnamese householdsThis study analyses the relationship between temperature shocks and migration in rural households in Vietnam...
Climate change Migration Food industry and tradeJournal Article
Settlement and labour force outcomes for Afghan immigrants and their children in CanadaPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Afghan immigrants Canada Labour force participationJournal Article
Challenges to the economic integration of Afghan refugees in the USPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Economic capital Cultural capital IntegrationJournal Article
Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation: Vietnamese in West and East GermanyPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Integration International migration RefugeesJournal Article
Differentiated embedding among the Vietnamese refugees in London and the UK: Fragmentation, complexity, and ‘in/visibility’Part of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
First- and second-generation Intra-ethnic divisions Invisivility UKJournal Article
The resettlement of Vietnamese refugees across Canada over three decadesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Canada Earnings Economic integrationJournal Article
Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United StatesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Refugees Involuntary migration Boat peopleJournal Article
Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influencesPart of Journal Special Issue Involuntary Migration, Inequality, and Integration
Economic integration Horizontal inequality InequalityWorking Paper
Securitized reception: revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrantsIn a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, ‘Forced migration and inequality’, one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and Vietnamese refugee resettlement across four Western countries...
Afghanistan Context of reception Middle East and South AsiaBook Chapter
Social networks as levers of mobilityFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Behavioral economics Cultural economics Geographic labour mobilityBook Chapter
Ethnography and social mobility: A reviewPart of Journal Special Issue Social mobility in developing countries
Ethnography Inequality MigrationWorking Paper
Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal: Disentangling the interdependenciesClimate change is expected to increase the risk in agricultural production due to increasing temperatures and rainfall variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration...
Climate change Migration AgricultureWorking Paper
The legacy of conflict: aggregate evidence from Sierra LeoneThis paper studies the general equilibrium impact of civil war in Sierra Leone. I first use an instrumental variable (IV) strategy and geographic conflict variation to estimate reduced-form effects...
Conflict Livelihoods Structural transformationWorking Paper
Migration and the labour market impacts of COVID-19Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 pandemic...
Migration COVID-19 Panel