Russia and modern migration crisis: On the rural labor migration

Under-employment and rural migration in iran

International labor migration and financial crisis in Korea.

Although the Korean economy became severely depressed because of the financial crisis in November 1997, most foreign migrant workers in the country opted to stay rather than return to their home countries. This study examined the causes of their relative immobility at both the macro- and microlevel through the use of government statistics and survey data. The first section of this study explo...

Migration, the financial crisis, and child growth in rural Guatemala

Migration has been demonstrated by various studies to be closely linked to improvements in individualand household-level outcomes. It is difficult to identify with confidence the causal effects of migration, however, and likely that some of the observed differences are related to selection. In this paper, rather than examining the “positive” effects of migration, we put the spotlight on how the...

Labour Migration and Rural Agricultural Production in Southwestern Nigeria

In recent years, Nigeria witnessed significant labour migration coupled with reduction in rural agricultural productivity. Youths abandoned farms for ventures with high returns and less drudgery in cities thus labour availability in peak agricultural seasons became scarce. The declining farm population constituting mostly women and old men are not capable of producing sufficient food for the no...

The Impact of International Migration on the Economy with the Assumption of Labor Heterogeneity

T his study investigated the effect of international labor migration on Iran’s economy using a neo-classical growth model with the assumption of labor heterogeneity within the framework of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model. After solving the model, the obtained equations were linearized and different values were assigned to the parameters according to Iran’s economy inform...