Migration is a dominant survival strategy among rice-farming households in Cambodia.
Using Cambodia's Feed the Future data, this paper examines how rice production, sales …

How do fluctuations in income affect labor supply decisions, and how do their effects differ
by gender? This study analyzes data from a thirteen-year rolling panel in Kyrgyzstan …

Purpose The paper examines the effect of internal remittances on the employment choices
of household heads in rural Ghana. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs data …

Women's capacities are often constrained due to their roles in their household and society,
institutional barriers and social norms. These constraints result in low adaptive capacity of …

This paper examines the effects of migration on time allocation in work activities of left‐
behind family members in Nepal with attention to gender and age. Based on Nepal's Labor …

The article brings the concept of the immobile left‐behind population into the migration
infrastructure debates focusing on countries of migrants' origin. Drawing on an analysis of …

The development of Kyrgyzstan reveals two important trends: declining agricultural
production and a steady increase of remittances from labor migration. These trends suggest …

A common finding of the migration literature is that migrants are more likely to choose self-
employment upon return to their origin countries than non-migrants. This has led to the belief …

This paper explores the impacts of migration on the labor supply decisions of left-behinds.
Based on the data from the Georgian Household Survey and employing the instrumental …

This study uses neoclassical labour theory to examine the association between migration
and the time-spending behaviour of left behind family members by gender and the female …