BACKGROUND Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and may increase the risk of obesity and diabetes. We tested the hypotheses that rural-to-urban migrants have a higher prevalence of obesity and diabetes than rural nonmigrants, that migrants would have an intermediate prevalence of obesity and diabetes compared with life-long urban and rural dwellers, and that longer ti...

The article is devoted to the analysis of migration nature and specifics as a socio-economic phenomenon in context current state prospects development agrarian economy Russian Federation conditions new social reality. research objectives: international rules for policy implementation food crises; assessment rural labor Federation; determination regional development. authors reveal contradiction...

This paper deals with the rural-urban migration of families in the last decades of the 19 century in one of the most developed regions of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy – the Pilsen region. The analysis indicates that the household head’s expected real rural-urban wage gap was not the main factor behind migration. Instead, the observed behavior is consistent with families maximizing a dynastic u...

People have always migrated. Recent globalisation dynamics, however, significantly alter the conditions and features of migration. This paper analyses ruralurban interactions as shaped by female labour migrants in a globalising Thailand. The central question is how female migrants in Bangkok constitute space through their relationships with their rural origin and concisely, whether female labou...

Abstract This article investigates the development of rural migration in northern Sweden (1850–1950). During this period, experienced a slower rate urbanisation than rest country. study proposes that decentralised industrialisation (i.e., rural-industrial labour, predominantly timber industry) introduced inertia to process by lowering rural-to-urban migration. Using longitudinal, individual-lev...

Migration and gender studies have focused on economically active heterogeneous couples and traditionally highlight a dominant male role in migration decision-making. The female partner is commonly portrayed as a ‘trailing wife’ or ‘trailing mother’ with the move found to have a negative effect on her employment prospects. Much less is known about if or how the balance of power shifts between hu...

The movement of human populations across the planet has character ized human societies throughout history. Historically, resource scarcity or depletion has induced this movement. In recent years, rural populations and their relationships to their environment are again attracting growing interest, especially in connection with population change and particularly migration. Rural areas contain mos...

We construct a general equilibrium model of urban unemployment with a continuum of heterogeneous urban firms producing differentiated products in a monopolistic competitive market. We show that an increase in urban institutionally fixed minimum wage reduces urban aggregate output and each urban firm will experience an output cut proportional to the change in aggregate output. However, such prop...

Temporary labor migration in developing countries is an important urban ^ rural linkage that has a potential impact on rural development. According to the new economies of labor migration, it is often a strategy used by families with small farms to acquire investment capital for future business formation. In this paper, I argue further that human-capital accretion during migration reinforces th...