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Rural to Urban Migration as a Household Decision: Experimental Evidences from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

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  • Huynh Truong Huy

    (Center for Migration and Intercultural Studies, Antwerpen University, Belgium)

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This paper reports the results of a survey from 148 households in the Mekong Delta regarding the household's decision of migration. Recent studies of migration indicated that a decision of migration for a certain person is not made individually by himself, but it is often made with impacts from other members in family. The logistic regression model is applied in this paper to examine the determinants of decision of migration to both migration and non-migration households. According to the descriptive measure, it is found that the decision of migration for a typical household is significantly associated with the factors, namely "push" and "pull" factors. Among those are lack of job and low wages in home village, landless, job opportunities, higher wages and links to relatives from urban areas. Furthermore, the result of the estimated model displays the household's migration decision is strongly positively associated with household size, housing status, landless, but negative to number of dependants, plot size and income from non-farming activity.

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  • Huynh Truong Huy, 2009. "Rural to Urban Migration as a Household Decision: Experimental Evidences from the Mekong Delta, Vietnam," Working Papers 17, Development and Policies Research Center (DEPOCEN), Vietnam.
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    1. Monica Roman, 2013. "Financial Effects of the International Migration in Europe: Modelling the Decision to Remit," Panoeconomicus, Savez ekonomista Vojvodine, Novi Sad, Serbia, vol. 60(4), pages 541-555, June.
    2. Tran, Dung Duc & Huu, Loc Ho & Hoang, Long Phi & Pham, Tien Duy & Nguyen, Au Hai, 2021. "Sustainability of rice-based livelihoods in the upper floodplains of Vietnamese Mekong Delta: Prospects and challenges," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 243(C).
    3. Hien, Nguyen Thi Thu, 2019. "Consequences of urban migration of adult children for the elderly left-behind in rural Vietnam," OSF Preprints zxyf8, Center for Open Science.
    4. Nguyen, Quang & Kim, Doo-Chul, 2019. "Farmers’ landholding strategy in urban fringe areas: A case study of a transitional commune near Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 83(C), pages 95-104.

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    Vietnam; Rural; Urban; Migration; Mekong Delta; household;
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