What drives rural out-migration? Insights from Kosovo

Rural development and out-migration from small and large villages in iran

Insights from the What Drives Diesel Fuel Prices?

Our model suggests that spot diesel should rise 25 cents a gallon over the next six months and 41 cents a gallon over the next 18 months. americans who drive cars are no doubt aware of the drastic rise and fall in gasoline prices over the past few years. What they may not have noticed is the unusual movement in the price of diesel, a fuel primarily used in trucks, buses, railroad engines, farm ...

Rural out Migration at the Household Level

Migration, conventionally, being an important part of demography, is least studied as compared to fertility and mortality. Due to decreasing birth and death rate, migration (internal or international) has become a more important concern for demographers and other social scientists.Since probability models provide concise and clear representations of extensive data sets in a better way (Aryal, 2...

Rural Agricultural Change and Individual Out-migration.

We investigate the impact of household use of labor-saving farm technologies on first-time out-migration after the household agriculture and consumption survey was conducted in 1996. Building on the labor substitution framework, we hypothesize that household use of labor-saving technologies (e.g., tractors, farm implements, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides) increases individual out-migratio...

Rural out-migration and economic development at origin What do we know?

Labour migration is a pervasive feature of economic development. People mobility for temporary or permanent labour purposes is a routine part of agricultural activity. There are very significant migration flows in some developing areas, with considerable impacts on individuals, households and regions at origin. Despite the growing debate about motivations and impacts of recent migration flows, ...