Factors Influencing Urban to Rural Migration for Farming

Factors influencing family physicians to enter rural practice: does rural or urban background make a difference?

OBJECTIVE To examine where rural physicians grew up, when during their training they became interested in rural medicine, factors influencing their decision to practise rural medicine, and differences in these measures according to rural or urban upbringing. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Rural Canada. PARTICIPANTS Rural family physicians who graduated between 1991 and 2000 from a Canadian...

Factors influencing rural residents' utilization of urban hospitals.

OBJECTIVE To examine, using nationally representative data, which patient, hospital, and county characteristics influence rural residents' urban hospitalization. METHODS Rural residents hospitalized in urban hospitals (crossovers) are compared with those hospitalized in rural hospitals (noncrossovers). National Hospital Discharge Survey data were merged with Area Resource File and Centers for...

The impact of economic factors on rural-urban migration of ranchers in Ardabil province

Background and objectives: Migration is the movement of people from one ecological region to another, it may be on temporary or permanent basis. Migration is a selective mechanism that impacts individuals and households economically, socially, educationally, and demographically, and it is an important phenomenon that many economists, particularly in developing countries, have addressed. Due to ...

Urbanization, Rural–urban Migration and Urban Poverty

Urbanization and Rural-Urban Migration

This chapter considers the literature on urbanization and migration to cities from rural areas in developing and middle-income countries. The chapter assesses recent patterns, discusses traditional models, addresses more recent models of migration, presents some of the recent findings from the micro-econometric literature, and closes with a discussion of the role of cities in economic growth. C...