{"title":"Individual characteristics and the propensity to migrate: a logit analysis.","authors":"S Akwawua","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between individual human resource characteristics and the propensity to migrate or not to migrate. The analysis emphasises the individual characteristics that distinguish migrants from the rest of the nonmigrant population at the origin areas of the migrants.... This study adopts a logit specification in analysing the relationships between individual human resource characteristics and the propensity to migrate.\"</p>","PeriodicalId":85114,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian journal of tropical geography","volume":"27 1","pages":"11-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internal migration in a rapidly developing country: the case of Peninsular Malaysia.","authors":"K E Chan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>\"This paper discusses the patterns and trends in internal territorial mobility in Peninsular Malaysia from 1957 [to] the 1980s, focussing specially on the period of the 1980s.\" Data are from Peninsular Malaysian Labour Force Migration Sample Surveys.</p>","PeriodicalId":85114,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian journal of tropical geography","volume":"25 2","pages":"69-77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22017944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population growth and national development in Malawi.","authors":"J R Mlia, E Kalipeni","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85114,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian journal of tropical geography","volume":"15 ","pages":"39-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1987-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22027198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The decline in infant mortality in Costa Rica, 1950-1973: modernization or technological diffusion?","authors":"Klijzing Fkh, H W Taylor","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85114,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian journal of tropical geography","volume":"5 ","pages":"22-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22025766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial patterns of age-sex structures in Costa Rica: a study in demographic modernization.","authors":"H W Taylor, D R Fesenmaier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The relationship between economic development and demographic factors in Costa Rica is examined. \"Specifically, the paper illustrates the evolution of spatial patterns in age-sex structures over three points in time for a single case study area.\" The authors suggest that there is order in the evolving patterns and that this order may be explained by the economic modernization process. Data are from the 1950, 1963, and 1973 censuses. Although some spatial order is indicated, the patterns are confused primarily by an increase in fertility that apparently occurred between 1950 and 1963.</p>","PeriodicalId":85114,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian journal of tropical geography","volume":"2 ","pages":"35-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1980-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22011394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}