Internal Migration in Vietnam, 2002–2012

Ian Coxhead, Cuong Nguyen and Hoang Linh Vu
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Hoang Linh Vu: Vietnam-Japan University

A chapter in Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam, 2019, pp 67-96 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We investigate determinants of individual migration decisions in Vietnam, a country with increasingly high levels of geographical labour mobility. Using data from the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey 2012 (VHLSS2012), we find that the probability of migration is strongly associated with individual, household and community-level characteristics. The probability of migration is higher for young people and those with post-secondary education. Migrants are more likely to be from households with better-educated household heads, female-headed households, and households with higher youth dependency ratios. Members of ethnic minority groups are much less likely to migrate, other things being equal. Using multinomial logit methods, we distinguish migration by broad destination, and find that those moving to Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi have broadly similar characteristics and drivers of migration as those moving to other destinations. We also use the VHLSS2012 together with the VHLSS2010, which allows us to focus on a narrow cohort of recent migrants—those present in the household in 2010, but who had moved away by 2012. This yields much tighter results. For education below upper secondary school, the evidence on positive selection by education is much stronger. However, the ethnic minority “penalty” on spatial labor mobility remains strong and significant, even after controlling for specific characteristics of households and communes. This lack of mobility is a leading candidate to explain the distinctive persistence of poverty among Vietnam’s ethnic minority populations, even as national poverty has sharply diminished.

Keywords: Migration; Migration decision; Remittances; Household survey; Vietnam (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-94574-3_3

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