This article investigates the antecedents, experience and consequences of service in the lives of rural-born Dutch women within the urbanizing and industrializing context of the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. The decision to enter service was often taken by the girl’s parents against the background of a distress-ridden household. From the latter part ...

Between 1916 and 1970, more than 6.5 million Black Americans left rural southern homes for cities across the North West. This Great Migration was transformational migrants themselves,...

Developing countries are experiencing unprecedented levels of urbanization. Although most of these movements are motivated by economic reasons, they could affect the human capital accumulation of the children who follow their parents to the cities. This paper estimates the causal effect of permanently migrating as a child from a rural area to an urban area on human capital outcomes. To our know...

This paper reviews the state of knowledge in, and develops a conceptual model for, researching frontier migration in the developing world with a focus on Latin America. Since only a small fraction moves to forest frontiers, identifying people and place characteristics associated with frontier migration could usefully inform policies aimed at forest conservation and rural development. Yet popula...

Network role is vital to transfer benefits of information technology in rural hands to minimize the gap between urban and rural infrastructure. Observations represent coarse relationships to identify and understand possible models based on Network Artifacts (NA) to establish computer network in rural areas. The purpose is to promote such NA which would consume less effort to learn and use new t...

The massive scale of new-generation rural-urban migrants in China has attracted extensive scholarly attention recent years. While previous studies on China’s rural migrant workers focus migrants’ individual settlement intentions, migrant’s family migration decision-making and the intergenerational differences between old-generation are underexplored. Based data 2017 Migrants Dynamic Survey, thi...

The movement of labor out of agriculture is a universal concomitant of economic modernization and growth. Traditional migration models overlook many potential interactions between migration and development. Given imperfect markets characterizing most migrantsending areas, migration and remittances can have far-reaching impacts, both positive and negative, on incomes and production in agricultur...