Effects of internal migration on labour market behaviour of families left-behind in Vietnam
David Granada Donato
TVSEP Working Papers from Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Project TVSEP
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This document explores the implications of a migratory shock (in the form of household member(s) leaving) on the labour market behaviour of individuals left-behind in Vietnam. In addition, various coping mechanisms exhibited by each age group and their implications regarding sectoral labour allocation are further explored. Using panel data of 2,200 households in six waves and a DiD specification, the results suggest an increase in the likelihood of working for the elderly in agriculture that is most likely associated with higher labour invested in livestock activities. The results are robust to different specifications. Moreover, this coping mechanism of increased work is exhibited by those families that do not receive remittances and seems to last (even increase) for up to three periods after the migratory shock occurs. Interestingly, there is also evidence of diminishing returns on working probability when the share of migrants in the household increase.
Keywords: Migration; Left-Behind; Labour Market; Agriculture (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 O15 P25 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2022-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mig, nep-sea, nep-tra and nep-ure
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