Internal Migration, Remittance, and Contraceptive Use in India Session 265: Internal Migration and Wellbeing IUSSP 2013 Busan, Korea

Innovations in International Migration for use in Global Population Projections

for a paper to be presented at 27th IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea. Conference session: 601 International migration Guy Abel, Nikola Sander and Samir K.C. Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences & International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Living Arrangements of the Elderly in India: Who lives alone and what are the patterns of familial support? Session 301: Living arrangement and its effect on older people in ageing societies IUSSP 2013 Busan, Korea

Determinants Factor of Circular Labor Migration: Bangladesh Context

Economic growth of Bangladesh largely depends on unskilled and skill overseas manpower. Bangladesh is called an over populated country. She has much manpower but most of them are unskilled. So, Bangladesh is as one of the highest unskilled labor sending countries in the world and is gaining foreign remittance. After analysis the questionnaire survey, it has found that maximum labors are not sat...

An Integrated Analysis of Migration and Remittances: Modeling Migration as a Mechanism for Selection

Prior work has modeled individuals’ migration and remittance behavior separately, and reported mixed empirical support for various remittance motivations. This study offers an integrated approach, and considers migration as a mechanism for selection in a censored probit model of remittance behavior. This approach leads to different conclusions about the determinants of remittance behavior in th...

Modern contraceptive use among migrant and non-migrant women in Kenya

BACKGROUND Manifest socio-economic differences are a trigger for internal migration in many sub-Saharan settings including Kenya. An interplay of the social, political and economic factors often lead to internal migration. Internal migration potentially has significant consequences on an individual's economic growth and on access to health services, however, there has been little research on th...