Impact of rural to urban labour migration and the remittances on sending household welfare: a Sri Lankan case study
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Keywords
Keyword: Rural urban migration; remittances; sending communities; Sri Lanka;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2012-02-20 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2012-02-20 (Economics of Human Migration)
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