Sundar Venkatesh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3697015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sundar Venkatesh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sundar |
| FAMILY NAME | Venkatesh |
| SIGNATURE | VENKATESH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Asian Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1906-8668 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The king's laws yield to village customs: An exploratory study of relational contracting in sustainable forestry
Vietnam's forestry sector faces unique governance challenges due to a landscape characterized by highly dispersed smallholder ownership, contrasting with concession-based models. As international markets increasingly demand sustainability certifications (e.g. FSC or PEFC), cost and complexity deter most smallholders, prompting wood processing firms to finance certification themselves. Such investments of processing firms can be at risk of opportu…
Influence of social structures on transnational migration duration: The case of Vietnamese contract workers returning from Taiwan
Purpose Limited previous studies about Vietnamese returned migrant workers reviewed that a relatively high rate of migrants returned home before their contract ended. This paper aims to explore how the decisions to return were made under social lenses. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyses data obtained through in-depth interviews of contract workers who had worked in Taiwan with a focus on Phu Tho province in Vietnam. Findings The auth…
International labour migration by women from Vietnam to Taiwan: Policy and Practice
This article aims to investigate the efficacy of the Vietnamese government’s policy to use international labour migration, specifically domestic workers, as a tool for the economic development of women. Several context-specific factors, including social and cultural, were found to limit the size and duration of the development impact of such a policy. The article concludes that international labour migration cannot be a substitute for government …
Does “buyer beware” work in migration? Contracting between brokers and migrants in Vietnam
This article is an attempt to open the lid a little of the “black box of migration” i.e. brokers. Analysing contracts between brokers and labour migrants, we identify four different forms of exploitation of migrants by brokers: expropriation of skill premium, risk shifting, over‐charging, and non‐refund of deposits. Opportunistic behaviour by brokers, as evidenced by such exploitation, is seen as a market failure that is explained by human attrib…
Does migration make financial sense? The case of domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan
Purpose – Adopting a view that migration is an investment, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the risk-adjusted returns that migrant domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan can expect to earn. Design/methodology/approach – The study analyses data obtained through interviews of a sample of migrant domestic workers, all from Phu Tho in the north of Vietnam, who had migrated to Taiwan. Findings – The study found that migrants were driven st…
Does “buyer beware” work in migration? Contracting between brokers and migrants in Vietnam
This article is an attempt to open the lid a little of the “black box of migration” i.e. brokers. Analysing contracts between brokers and labour migrants, we identify four different forms of exploitation of migrants by brokers: expropriation of skill premium, risk shifting, over‐charging, and non‐refund of deposits. Opportunistic behaviour by brokers, as evidenced by such exploitation, is seen as a market failure that is explained by human attrib…
International labour migration by women from Vietnam to Taiwan: Policy and Practice
This article aims to investigate the efficacy of the Vietnamese government’s policy to use international labour migration, specifically domestic workers, as a tool for the economic development of women. Several context-specific factors, including social and cultural, were found to limit the size and duration of the development impact of such a policy. The article concludes that international labour migration cannot be a substitute for government …
Does migration make financial sense? The case of domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan
Purpose – Adopting a view that migration is an investment, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the risk-adjusted returns that migrant domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan can expect to earn. Design/methodology/approach – The study analyses data obtained through interviews of a sample of migrant domestic workers, all from Phu Tho in the north of Vietnam, who had migrated to Taiwan. Findings – The study found that migrants were driven st…
Influence of social structures on transnational migration duration: The case of Vietnamese contract workers returning from Taiwan
Purpose Limited previous studies about Vietnamese returned migrant workers reviewed that a relatively high rate of migrants returned home before their contract ended. This paper aims to explore how the decisions to return were made under social lenses. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyses data obtained through in-depth interviews of contract workers who had worked in Taiwan with a focus on Phu Tho province in Vietnam. Findings The auth…
Does migration make financial sense? The case of domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan
Purpose – Adopting a view that migration is an investment, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the risk-adjusted returns that migrant domestic workers from Vietnam to Taiwan can expect to earn. Design/methodology/approach – The study analyses data obtained through interviews of a sample of migrant domestic workers, all from Phu Tho in the north of Vietnam, who had migrated to Taiwan. Findings – The study found that migrants were driven st…
Does “buyer beware” work in migration? Contracting between brokers and migrants in Vietnam
This article is an attempt to open the lid a little of the “black box of migration” i.e. brokers. Analysing contracts between brokers and labour migrants, we identify four different forms of exploitation of migrants by brokers: expropriation of skill premium, risk shifting, over‐charging, and non‐refund of deposits. Opportunistic behaviour by brokers, as evidenced by such exploitation, is seen as a market failure that is explained by human attrib…
International labour migration by women from Vietnam to Taiwan: Policy and Practice
This article aims to investigate the efficacy of the Vietnamese government’s policy to use international labour migration, specifically domestic workers, as a tool for the economic development of women. Several context-specific factors, including social and cultural, were found to limit the size and duration of the development impact of such a policy. The article concludes that international labour migration cannot be a substitute for government …
Influence of social structures on transnational migration duration: The case of Vietnamese contract workers returning from Taiwan
Purpose Limited previous studies about Vietnamese returned migrant workers reviewed that a relatively high rate of migrants returned home before their contract ended. This paper aims to explore how the decisions to return were made under social lenses. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyses data obtained through in-depth interviews of contract workers who had worked in Taiwan with a focus on Phu Tho province in Vietnam. Findings The auth…
The king's laws yield to village customs: An exploratory study of relational contracting in sustainable forestry
Vietnam's forestry sector faces unique governance challenges due to a landscape characterized by highly dispersed smallholder ownership, contrasting with concession-based models. As international markets increasingly demand sustainability certifications (e.g. FSC or PEFC), cost and complexity deter most smallholders, prompting wood processing firms to finance certification themselves. Such investments of processing firms can be at risk of opportu…
Economics (4 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (3 works) · Demographic economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Finance (2 works)