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Internal labor migration as a shock-coping strategy: Evidence from a typhoon

The aim of this paper is to analyze how internal labor migration facilitates shock-coping in rural economies, using the example of Vietnam. Employing highly precise satellite data, the authors identify objective variations in the inundations generated by the most severe typhoon in Vietnam for decades, and match this treatment with a household panel survey before and after the shock. They find that, following the massive drop in income, households achieve to cope mainly through internal labor migration to urban areas: households with settled migrants ex-ante receive more remittances. Non-migrant households react by sending new members away for work who earn less than established migrants, but remit similar amounts in the short term.

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  • Disasters
  • Labor
  • Migration
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Corresponding author: Andre Groger, Goethe University Frankfurt, email: agroeger@wiwi.unifrankfurt.de. Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol, email: yanos.zylberberg@bristol.ac.uk.

ရေးသားသူ (တစ်ဦးချင်း) Andre Groger, Yanos Zylberberg
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်နေရာ Vietnam
ထုတ်ဝေသည့်ရက်စွဲ 2014
တင်ခဲ့သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇန်နဝါရီ 2, 2015, 18:32 (UTC)
ပြန်လည်ပြင်ဆင်သည့်ရက်စွဲ ဇူလိုင် 14, 2016, 08:52 (UTC)