China has seen the largest human migration in history, and the country's rapid urbanisation has important consequences for public health. A provincial analysis of its urbanisation trends shows shifting and accelerating rural-to-urban migration across the country and accompanying rapid increases in city size and population. The growing disease burden in urban areas attributable to nutrition and ...

This monograph provides a systematic analysis of interprovincial migration in China and regional population dynamics since the 1950s. Data were obtained from the 1% sample survey of 1987. Chapters are devoted to an examination of the main features of population distribution and spatial differences of major demographic indicators, the causes and selectivity of migration, and the structure of m...

This paper uses a unique panel dataset from China's initial reform of fiscal decentralization to analyze the relationships between fiscal decentralization, local economic development, and rural-rural undocumented inter-provincial labor mobility. Using a modified gravity model with Heckman Maximum Likelihood Estimation method, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization has two contending effe...

OBJECTIVES To examine regional and temporal trends in migration among patients receiving HIV treatment in British Columbia (BC). METHODS Patients initiating antiretroviral therapy in BC between January 1993 and November 2004 were followed until November 2005. Migration was calculated as the cumulative number of times a patient's residential address changed during their course of treatment. An...

In Thailand, gross provincial product is highly unequal while household income exhibits moderate between-province inequality. This paper introduces a dynamic model to analyze the link between migration and cross-province inequality. The wage differential drives rural-to-urban migration and in turn the wage rate at the destination is affected by total amount of migrant labor supply. Migration ge...

Internal migration plays a crucial role in influencing real changes local area population size and facilitating the efficient functions of regional national labor market housing. This study is conducted to investigate elements at household level others provincial level, which have impacts on decision personal migration. We used database living standards surveys 2010, 2012, 2014 Vietnam. Logit m...