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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 economicsJournal Article
African Urbanization as Flight?: Some Policy Implications of GeographyPart of Journal Special Issue African Development in an Urban World
Economic growth Internal migration UrbanizationJournal Article
Passage, Profit, Protection, and the Challenge of Participation: Building and Belonging in African CitiesPart of Journal Special Issue African Development in an Urban World
Internal migration Population Regional economicsJournal Article
Contemporary South African Urbanization DynamicsPart of Journal Special Issue African Development in an Urban World
Internal migration Population UrbanizationBlog
Female Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesMaria Minniti and Wim Naudé In recent years, the rate of new business formation by women has significantly outpaced the rate of new business formation by men across all ethnic groups in the USA...
Discrimination in employment Economic development EntrepreneurshipWorking Paper
Globalizing Shanghai: International Migration and the Global CityCities are the focal point for the mobility of talents, located between the nations and firms, states and educational institutions...
Emigration and immigration Labour mobility Internal migration