Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Book -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam: Trend and Institutions -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Institutional Background -- 2.1 Social Protection -- 2.2 Health Care -- 2.3 Education -- 2.4 Employment -- 2.5 Credit -- 2.6 Housing and Utilities -- 3 Trends in Rural-Urban Migration -- 4 Migrants´ Contribution to the Places of Destination -- 5 Remittances and Migrants´ Contribution to the Places of Origin -- 6 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations -- References -- Study of Rural-Urban Migration in Vietnam: The Survey -- 1 Survey Design, Preparation and Implementation -- 1.1 Objective of the Survey -- 1.2 Survey Design -- 1.3 Survey Training -- 1.4 Calling and Conducting Interviews -- 1.5 Quality Control -- 1.6 Data Entry -- 2 Descriptive Survey Results -- 2.1 Household and Individual Characteristics -- 2.2 Employment -- 2.3 Social Protection and Migrant Workers -- 2.4 Migrants´ Wellbeing: Health Status and Their Ability to Face Problems -- 2.5 Migrants´ Children -- 2.6 Household Income and Expenditure During Migration Period -- 2.7 Housing and Living Conditions -- 3 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Internal Migration in Vietnam, 2002-2012 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Migration Choices: A Review of the Literature -- 3 Data -- 3.1 All Migration -- 3.2 Recent Migrants -- 4 Migration Patterns in Vietnam -- 5 Estimating Model -- 6 Estimation Results -- 6.1 Work and Non-work Migration -- 6.2 Choice of Destination -- 6.3 Recent Migrants for Work Purposes -- 7 Conclusions and Policy Discussion -- Appendix -- References -- Migration Duration and Migration Outcomes -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Data and Sample -- 3 Empirical Framework -- 4 Descriptive Analysis -- 5 Empirical Results -- 5.1 Factors Associated with Duration of Migration.