Type | Working Paper - MPRA Paper |
Title | The economic transition and migration of Vietnam and the Mekong Delta region |
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2011 |
URL | http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/36387/1/MPRA_paper_36387.pdf |
Abstract | Relationship between economic transition and migration has long attracted increasing attention of both policy-makers and researchers. Migration is seen as a response of changes during the economic transition in a country, because labour is an important production factor in the market, in which labourers have a desire to move to a place of better working conditions rather than going to a disadvantaged conditions (De Haas, 2010; Todaro, 1980).In this paper I extend this discussion by examining how effects of economic transition on internal migration since the late 1980s. This idea aims at gaining a broader insight into the relationship between economic transition and migration during the renovation process |