This paper uses the recent Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey 2004 to analyze
\nthe determinants and impacts of migration in Vietnam. Most of the previous studies on the
\ndeterminants and impacts of migration have focused on destination rather than origin areas
\nof migration. This limits our understanding of the determinants of migration and also does
\nnot provide evidence on important impacts of migration such as on household inequality in
\norigin areas.<\/p>\n
In terms of determinants of migration, the study shows that migration is a highly selective
\nprocess and strongly affected by household and commune characteristics, although
\ndifferently across type of migration and across urban and rural areas. We do find evidence
\nfor the existence of a ‘migration hump’ for economic long-term migration, with an inverted
\nU-shape in the probability of migration with respect to per capita expenditures. The
\npresence of non-farm employment opportunities does reduce short-term migration but not
\nlong-term out-migration for economic reasons.<\/p>\n
In terms of impacts the study analyzes the impact of migration on household expenditures
\nand household inequality. Migration is found to have a strong positive impact on
\nhousehold expenditures but increases the Gini coefficient of per capita household
\nexpenditures from 0.38 to 0.42 in origin areas compared to the no-migration case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","cate_publications":[],"author_publications":[1596,1597,1602,1603,1604,1605,1606,1607],"topic_publications":[],"class_list":["post-8789","publications","type-publications","status-publish","hentry","author_publications-tran-ngo-thi-minh-tam","author_publications-tran-ngo-thi-minh-tam-en","author_publications-nguyen-thu-phuong","author_publications-nguyen-thi-nguyet","author_publications-remco-oostendorp","author_publications-nguyen-thu-phuong-en","author_publications-nguyen-thi-nguyet-en","author_publications-remco-oostendorp-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications\/8789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publications"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publications"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cate_publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cate_publications?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"author_publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/author_publications?post=8789"},{"taxonomy":"topic_publications","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depocen.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic_publications?post=8789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}