TY - GEN
AU - Stecklov, Guy
AU - Davis, Benjamin
AU - Carletto, Calogero
AU - Azzarri, Carlo
AU - Stecklov, Guy
TI - Agency, Education And Networks Gender And International Migration From Albania
PB - The World Bank
KW - Anthropology
KW - Communities & Human Settlements
KW - Culture & Development
KW - Family members
KW - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW - Human Migrations and Resettlements
KW - Human Rights
KW - International Migration
KW - International migrant
KW - Law and Development
KW - Living Standards
KW - Policy ReseaRch
KW - Policy ReseaRch WoRking PaPeR
KW - Population Policies
KW - Progress
KW - Social Development
KW - Traditional societies
KW - Unmarried women
KW - Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement
KW - War
PY - 2008
N2 - This paper examines the causes and dynamics of the shift in the gender composition of migration, and more particularly, in the access of women to migration opportunities and decision making. The context of the analysis is Albania, a natural laboratory for studying migration developments given that out-migration was practically eliminated from the end of World War II to the end of the 1980s. The authors use micro-level data from the Albania 2005 Living Standards Measurement Study including migration histories for family members since migration began. Based on discrete-time hazard models, the analysis shows an impressive expansion of female participation in international migration. Female migration, which is shown to be strongly associated with education, wealth, and social capital, appears responsive to economic incentives and constraints. Yet, using unique data on the dependency of female migration to the household demographic structure as well as the sensitivity of female migration to household-level shocks, the authors show that it is the households themselves that are the decision-making agents behind this economic calculus and there is little to suggest that increased female migration signals the emergence of female agency
CY - Washington, D.C
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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