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The consequences of labour out-migration on income, rice productivity and gender roles: Synthesis of findings in the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam

author(s) Paris, T. R - Luis, J - Villanueva, D - Rola-Reubzen, M. F - Chi, Truong Thi Ngoc - Wongsanum, C
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  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
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Paris, T. R et al., 'The consequences of labour out-migration on income, rice productivity and gender roles: Synthesis of findings in the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam', vol. Part III; pages 185-196, ill. Ref, In: Gender dimensions of agricultural and rural employment: Differentiated pathways out of poverty. Status, trends and gaps, The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the International Labour Office; Rome, 2010

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Abstract

This migration study was based on surveys of farming households with and without migrants in the Philippines (813), Thailand (830) and Vietnam (831). Our findings reveal that the incidence of migration is highest in northeast Thailand (63 percent). In the Philippines and Vietnam, about a quarter of the farming households interviewed have at least one migrant. In the Philippines and Thailand, a higher proportion of adult sons and daughters migrate than their fathers. In contrast, in North Vietnam a higher proportion of fathers migrate than sons, while the mothers stayed behind to take over their field work responsibilities and management of the household and farm. Average household annual incomes of households with migrants are almost twice those of households without migrants in the Philippines and Thailand. In Vietnam, average household incomes between the two groups are almost the same

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