Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214205 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
TVSEP Working Paper No. WP-018
Publisher: 
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP), Hannover
Abstract: 
This paper examines the factors affecting the decision of migrants to return home in rural areas and their length of stay in cities with a focus on shocks and rural development policies. We use the unique Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) data. Our results reveal that the decision to return is positively associated with demographic shocks and negatively associated with social shocks during the time migrants stay in the cities. Meanwhile, economic shocks positively influence migrants' staying period in the cities. Besides, migrants from poor communes with poverty reduction projects are more unlikely to return. This implies that current rural development policies in Vietnam with a goal of poverty reduction might not be attractive enough for migrants to return.
Subjects: 
Two-step Heckman selection
Shocks
Rural-urban migration
Migrants' behavior
Rural development
JEL: 
J62
D13
O13
Q12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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