Crossing the Divide

Crossing the Divide

Rural to Urban Migration in Developing Countries

Lucas, Robert E.B.

Oxford University Press Inc

05/2022

704

Dura

Inglês

9780197602157

15 a 20 dias

1068

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Chapter 1: An Introduction and Preview

Chapter 2: Data Sources and Issues in Measurement
2.1. Lifetime Migration
2.2. Interim Moves
2.3. Some Comparisons of Alternative Measurement Approaches
2.4. An Implication: Symmetry or Asymmetry in Moves between Rural and Urban Areas?

Chapter 3: Country-Specific Magnitudes of Migration between Rural and Urban Sectors
3.1. Measurement Results
3.2. The Country-Specific Contexts.
3.3. Closing Remarks

Chapter 4: Who Migrates, Who Stays?
4.1. A Literature Summary
4.2. New Evidence: Characterizing the Movers

Chapter 5: Economic Motives and Barriers to Internal Migration
5.1. Labor Migration: The Individualistic View
5.2. Family Decisions and the New Economics of Labor Migration
5.3. On Barriers to Internal Migration
5.4. Extending the Evidence: Selection and the Returns to Migration and Staying

Chapter 6: The Roles of Social Networks
6.1. Social Networks and Internal Migration: Approaches and Limitations
6.2. Gravity Models and the Dynamics of Cumulative Inertia
6.3. Urban Networks in Rural-Urban Migration: Nationally Representative Estimates
6.4. Exploring Multiple Networks
6.5. Networks at Origin
6.6. A Summing Up

Chapter 7: The Impermanence of Moves: Return and Onward Migration
7.1. Evidence on the Impermanence of Moves
7.2. Return Migration
7.3. Selection and Upward Mobility among Rural-Urban Migrants
7.4. Short-term, Seasonal Migration
7.5. Notes on Repeat and Step Migration

Chapter 8: Impacts of Migration upon Families
8.1. Migrant Departure and the Living Standards of Those Left Behind
8.2 Couples: Cohabitation and Migration
8.3. Migration and the Well-being of Children

Chapter 9: In Perspective: A Summing Up
9.1. Rural-Urban Migration and Urbanization
9.2. The Role of Rural-Urban Migration in Economic Development
9.3. The Incidence and Importance of Temporary Moves
9.4. The Gender Balance in Crossing the Rural-Urban Divide
9.5. Implications for the Structure and Well-Being of Families
9.6. Rural-urban Migration: The Policy Framework
9.7. A Postscript: The COVID Pandemic


Appendix A: Data Sources and Issues in Measurement
Appendix B: Country-Specific Magnitudes of Migration between Rural and Urban Sectors
Appendix C: Who Migrates, Who Stays?
Appendix D: Economic Motives and Barriers to Internal Migration
Appendix E: The Roles of Social Networks
Appendix F: The Impermanence of Moves: Return and Onward Migration
Appendix G: Impacts of Migration upon Families

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