Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys
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 fi...
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LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES ECONOMIC GROWTH VILLAGES KINSHIP URBANIZATION BIG CITIES LOCAL ECONOMY SKILLED WORKERS DEPENDENT CHILDREN URBAN POVERTY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNES REMITTANCE RESOURCE ALLOCATION ETHNIC GROUPS LABOR FORCE SPECIFIC INCENTIVES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HEALTH INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING HEALTH CARE RURAL–URBAN MIGRATION CITIES MINISTRY OF LABOUR POPULATION FUND LAND TENURE VULNERABILITY INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET URBAN MIGRATION PUSH” FACTORS TRAINING JOB OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT POTENTIAL MIGRANTS MOBILITY SECONDARY SCHOOL MIGRATION AGE DISTRIBUTION ECONOMIC CHANGES NATURAL DISASTERS HOUSEHOLD INCOME MIGRATION PATTERNS DISASTERS MARRIAGE ECONOMIC CHANGE HISTORY DEPENDENCY RATIOS PLACE OF RESIDENCE UNITED NATION POPULATION FUND MIGRANTS HOUSEHOLD ASSETS ELDERLY ETHNICITY RESPECT PROGRESS MARKET ECONOMY MIGRATION FLOWS UNEMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HUMAN CAPITAL MIGRANT VOCATIONAL TRAINING OLDER PEOPLE RURAL COMMUNITIES MIGRATION RATES SOCIAL FACTORS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES SOCIAL SERVICES RESETTLEMENT POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PENSIONS SKILL LEVEL GENDER POLICY MAKERS LARGE CITIES URBAN CENTERS SOCIAL POLICY UNIVERSAL ACCESS BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPACT OF MIGRATION URBAN AREAS RESETTLEMENT COSTS CROP LAND SOCIAL NETWORKS POPULATION RESEARCH POPULATIONS MOTHER INTERNAL MIGRANTS TEMPORARY MIGRATION GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SEX GOVERNMENT POLICIES RURAL RESIDENTS MINORITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES LEVEL OF EDUCATION POPULATION MOVEMENTS HOUSEHOLDS CENSUSES RURAL AREAS FARMS PULL FACTORS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW PUSH FACTORS INTERNAL MIGRATION POLICY IMPLICATIONS YOUNG PEOPLE CAUSES OF MIGRATION POPULATION MARITAL STATUS COMMUNICATION POLICY RESEARCH UNFPA NORMS FAMILIES WOMEN REMITTANCES RURAL DEVELOPMENT SECONDARY EDUCATION LABOR MIGRATION DEVELOPMENT POLICY |
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LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES ECONOMIC GROWTH VILLAGES KINSHIP URBANIZATION BIG CITIES LOCAL ECONOMY SKILLED WORKERS DEPENDENT CHILDREN URBAN POVERTY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNES REMITTANCE RESOURCE ALLOCATION ETHNIC GROUPS LABOR FORCE SPECIFIC INCENTIVES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HEALTH INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING HEALTH CARE RURAL–URBAN MIGRATION CITIES MINISTRY OF LABOUR POPULATION FUND LAND TENURE VULNERABILITY INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET URBAN MIGRATION PUSH” FACTORS TRAINING JOB OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT POTENTIAL MIGRANTS MOBILITY SECONDARY SCHOOL MIGRATION AGE DISTRIBUTION ECONOMIC CHANGES NATURAL DISASTERS HOUSEHOLD INCOME MIGRATION PATTERNS DISASTERS MARRIAGE ECONOMIC CHANGE HISTORY DEPENDENCY RATIOS PLACE OF RESIDENCE UNITED NATION POPULATION FUND MIGRANTS HOUSEHOLD ASSETS ELDERLY ETHNICITY RESPECT PROGRESS MARKET ECONOMY MIGRATION FLOWS UNEMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HUMAN CAPITAL MIGRANT VOCATIONAL TRAINING OLDER PEOPLE RURAL COMMUNITIES MIGRATION RATES SOCIAL FACTORS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES SOCIAL SERVICES RESETTLEMENT POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PENSIONS SKILL LEVEL GENDER POLICY MAKERS LARGE CITIES URBAN CENTERS SOCIAL POLICY UNIVERSAL ACCESS BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPACT OF MIGRATION URBAN AREAS RESETTLEMENT COSTS CROP LAND SOCIAL NETWORKS POPULATION RESEARCH POPULATIONS MOTHER INTERNAL MIGRANTS TEMPORARY MIGRATION GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SEX GOVERNMENT POLICIES RURAL RESIDENTS MINORITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES LEVEL OF EDUCATION POPULATION MOVEMENTS HOUSEHOLDS CENSUSES RURAL AREAS FARMS PULL FACTORS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW PUSH FACTORS INTERNAL MIGRATION POLICY IMPLICATIONS YOUNG PEOPLE CAUSES OF MIGRATION POPULATION MARITAL STATUS COMMUNICATION POLICY RESEARCH UNFPA NORMS FAMILIES WOMEN REMITTANCES RURAL DEVELOPMENT SECONDARY EDUCATION LABOR MIGRATION DEVELOPMENT POLICY Coxhead, Ian Cuong, Nguyen Viet Vu, Linh Hoang Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys |
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Vietnam development economics discussion paper,no. 2; |
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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. |
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Working Paper |
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Coxhead, Ian Cuong, Nguyen Viet Vu, Linh Hoang |
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Coxhead, Ian Cuong, Nguyen Viet Vu, Linh Hoang |
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Coxhead, Ian |
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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys |
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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys |
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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys |
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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys |
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Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys |
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migration in vietnam : new evidence from recent surveys |
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World Bank, Hanoi |
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2016 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25721417/migration-vietnam-new-evidence-recent-surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23597 |
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okr-10986-235972021-04-23T14:04:16Z Migration in Vietnam : New Evidence from Recent Surveys Coxhead, Ian Cuong, Nguyen Viet Vu, Linh Hoang LIVING STANDARDS HOUSEHOLD SIZE UNEMPLOYMENT RATES ECONOMIC GROWTH VILLAGES KINSHIP URBANIZATION BIG CITIES LOCAL ECONOMY SKILLED WORKERS DEPENDENT CHILDREN URBAN POVERTY EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES COMMUNES REMITTANCE RESOURCE ALLOCATION ETHNIC GROUPS LABOR FORCE SPECIFIC INCENTIVES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HEALTH INSURANCE DISCRIMINATION PUBLIC SERVICES HOUSING HEALTH CARE RURAL–URBAN MIGRATION CITIES MINISTRY OF LABOUR POPULATION FUND LAND TENURE VULNERABILITY INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION LABOR MARKET URBAN MIGRATION PUSH” FACTORS TRAINING JOB OPPORTUNITIES EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT POTENTIAL MIGRANTS MOBILITY SECONDARY SCHOOL MIGRATION AGE DISTRIBUTION ECONOMIC CHANGES NATURAL DISASTERS HOUSEHOLD INCOME MIGRATION PATTERNS DISASTERS MARRIAGE ECONOMIC CHANGE HISTORY DEPENDENCY RATIOS PLACE OF RESIDENCE UNITED NATION POPULATION FUND MIGRANTS HOUSEHOLD ASSETS ELDERLY ETHNICITY RESPECT PROGRESS MARKET ECONOMY MIGRATION FLOWS UNEMPLOYMENT HOUSEHOLD LEVEL HUMAN CAPITAL MIGRANT VOCATIONAL TRAINING OLDER PEOPLE RURAL COMMUNITIES MIGRATION RATES SOCIAL FACTORS CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES SOCIAL SERVICES RESETTLEMENT POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER PENSIONS SKILL LEVEL GENDER POLICY MAKERS LARGE CITIES URBAN CENTERS SOCIAL POLICY UNIVERSAL ACCESS BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE IMPACT OF MIGRATION URBAN AREAS RESETTLEMENT COSTS CROP LAND SOCIAL NETWORKS POPULATION RESEARCH POPULATIONS MOTHER INTERNAL MIGRANTS TEMPORARY MIGRATION GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS SOCIAL AFFAIRS SEX GOVERNMENT POLICIES RURAL RESIDENTS MINORITY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES LEVEL OF EDUCATION POPULATION MOVEMENTS HOUSEHOLDS CENSUSES RURAL AREAS FARMS PULL FACTORS INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW PUSH FACTORS INTERNAL MIGRATION POLICY IMPLICATIONS YOUNG PEOPLE CAUSES OF MIGRATION POPULATION MARITAL STATUS COMMUNICATION POLICY RESEARCH UNFPA NORMS FAMILIES WOMEN REMITTANCES RURAL DEVELOPMENT SECONDARY EDUCATION LABOR MIGRATION DEVELOPMENT POLICY 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. 2016-01-07T22:59:07Z 2016-01-07T22:59:07Z 2015-11 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/12/25721417/migration-vietnam-new-evidence-recent-surveys http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23597 English en_US Vietnam development economics discussion paper,no. 2; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Hanoi Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research East Asia and Pacific Vietnam |