Inter-provincial migration and inequality during Vietnam's transition
By D. Phan, I. Coxhead. 2008
165 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Vietnam's economic boom during the transition to a market economy has centered on very rapid growth in some sectors and provinces, yet poverty has diminished across the entire country. With capital investments highly concentrated by province and sector, geographic labor mobility may be critical in spreading the gains from growth. Conversely, rising income inequality may be attributable in part to impediments to migration. We first use census data to investigate migration patterns and determinants. We then examine the role of migration as an influence on income ratios between pairs of provinces. The former analysis robustly confirms economic motives for migration but also suggests the existence of poverty-related labor immobility at the provincial level. Examination of income ratios between pairs of provinces reveals that the impact of migration on inequality can be either negative or positive. A robust inequality-reducing impact of migration is found for migration flows into provinces where most of Vietnam's trade-oriented industrial investments are located.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e59e30b59ae2dcc6d849f67869727631a1e1f7a0
Citations in the corpus
- Trajectories of deforestation, coffee expansion and displacement of shifting cultivation in the Central Highlands of Vietnam (2013, unknown): “With 151 the general liberalization of the society, unplanned migration towards the Central Highlands 152 accelerated (Hardy 2000, 2003, Zhang et al. 2006, Phan and Coxhead 2010).”
- Internal Labor Migration as a Shock Coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon (2016, unknown): “…fact that an aggregate shock can increase the incentive for labor migration through the loss of income generating opportunities at the local level, while at the same time increasing the financial barriers due to a loss of household assets needed to finance migration upfront (Phan and Coxhead 2010).”