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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- World Bank, Hanoi, 2015.
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Abstract
- The authors investigate determinants of individual migration decisions in Vietnam, a country with increasingly high levels of geographical labor mobility. Using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (VHLSS) of 2012, the authors find that probability of migration is strongly associated with individual, household and community-level characteristics. The probability of migration is higher for young people and those with post-secondary education. Migrants are more likely to be from households with better-educated household heads, female-headed households, and households with higher youth dependency ratios. Members of ethnic minority groups are much less likely to migrate, other things equal. Using multinomial logit methods, we distinguish migration by broad destination, and find that those moving to Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi have broadly similar characteristics and drivers of migration to those moving to other destinations. The authors also use VHLSS 2012 together with VHLSS 2010, which allows us to focus on a narrow cohort of recent migrants, those present in the household in 2010, but who have moved away by 2012. This yields much tighter results. For education below upper secondary school, the evidence on positive selection by education is much stronger. However, the ethnic minority ‘penalty’ on spatial labor mobility remains strong and significant, even after controlling for specific characteristics of households and communes. This lack of mobility is a leading candidate to explain the distinctive persistence of poverty among Vietnam’s ethnic minority populations, even as national poverty has sharply diminished.
- Subjects :
- CITIES
MIGRANT
ECONOMIC GROWTH
COMMUNICATION
SOCIAL FACTORS
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
DEPENDENT CHILDREN
HEALTH INSURANCE
SKILL LEVEL
FAMILIES
LABOR MIGRATION
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
PULL FACTORS
JOB OPPORTUNITIES
YOUNG PEOPLE
PUSH FACTORS
MINISTRY OF LABOUR
POLICY MAKERS
POPULATION
MIGRANTS
UNEMPLOYMENT
RESOURCE ALLOCATION
PLACE OF RESIDENCE
AGE DISTRIBUTION
TEMPORARY MIGRATION
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
WOMEN
PUSH” FACTORS
URBANIZATION
MOTHER
UNITED NATION POPULATION FUND
SOCIAL SERVICES
POPULATIONS
SKILLED WORKERS
PENSIONS
INTERNAL MIGRANTS
LIVING STANDARDS
ETHNIC GROUPS
REMITTANCE
PUBLIC SERVICES
POPULATION FUND
FARMS
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
RURAL AREAS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SOCIAL AFFAIRS
PROGRESS
OLDER PEOPLE
VULNERABILITY
LABOR MARKET
ELDERLY
LARGE CITIES
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
LAND TENURE
DEPENDENCY RATIOS
EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
MOBILITY
MIGRATION PATTERNS
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
LEVEL OF EDUCATION
SOCIAL POLICY
CLIMATE CHANGE
KINSHIP
URBAN POVERTY
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
MINORITY
RURAL–URBAN MIGRATION
GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
UNFPA
HISTORY
HOUSEHOLD ASSETS
SPECIFIC INCENTIVES
POPULATION RESEARCH
INTERNAL MIGRATION
MARRIAGE
RURAL RESIDENTS
MIGRATION RATES
ECONOMIC CHANGES
REMITTANCES
POPULATION MOVEMENTS
POLICIES
VILLAGES
POLICY
ETHNICITY
URBAN CENTERS
HEALTH CARE
HUMAN CAPITAL
DISASTERS
IMPACT OF MIGRATION
SEX
HOUSEHOLDS
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW
RESPECT
SECONDARY SCHOOL
NATURAL DISASTERS
RURAL COMMUNITIES
TRAINING
MIGRATION
CAUSES OF MIGRATION
HOUSEHOLD INCOME
RESETTLEMENT
POLICY RESEARCH
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
POTENTIAL MIGRANTS
HOUSEHOLD SIZE
UNEMPLOYMENT RATES
INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
RESETTLEMENT COSTS
POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER
HOUSEHOLD LEVEL
MIGRATION FLOWS
CROP LAND
HOUSING
MARITAL STATUS
COMMUNES
INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS
LOCAL ECONOMY
LABOR FORCE
ECONOMIC CHANGE
NORMS
DISCRIMINATION
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
URBAN MIGRATION
BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE
URBAN AREAS
MARKET ECONOMY
GENDER
BIG CITIES
SOCIAL NETWORKS
CENSUSES
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.od......2456..790ab40042c5811d978b1541f33e0e5f