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Migration, Remittances and Public Transfers: Evidence from South Africa

Sienaert, Alex - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

What drives migration and remittance behaviour in South Africa, and what are the implications for public policy? This … longitudinal data spanning 1993 to 2004 from KwaZula-Natal province. Findings generally accord with expectations if migration is a … receipt of public transfer income raises the likelihood of migration (most likely because migration is costly and households …

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Chinese Peasant Choices : Farming, Rural Industry or Migration.

Knight, J; Song, L - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

farming, local non-farming and temporary migration activites. The returns to non-farming greatly exceed those to farming, for …

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Joining the EU: Capital Flows, Migration and Wages

Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

What is the impact of joining the European Union on a small, less developed economy? This is the general question driving this research paper. In particular, the role of factor movements in explaining real wage behavior in Portugal after its entry in the European Union (EU) is evaluated. Based...

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Why Doesn't Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience

Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

. However, migration flows from southern Europe responded little to free migration after 1986, despite substantial … differentials in real GDP per worker. The simple explanation we propose for this puzzle is migration costs. We explore the … implications of our costly migration model by combining individual information from two household survey datasets (Luxembourg …

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The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China

Knight, John; Quheng, Deng; Shi, Li - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

of migration, and to examine the size and nature of the pool of potential rural-urban migrants. An attempt is also made … to project the rural and urban labour force and migration forward to 2020, on the basis of the 2005 one per cent …

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State Dependence in a Multi-state Model of Employment Dynamics

Prowse, Victoria - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

A multinomial choice framework is used to investigate the nature of women`s transitions between full-time employment, part-time employment and non-employment. The stochastic framework allows time varying and time invariant unobserved preferences, and also controls for the possible endogenity of...

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On Short-Term Contracts Regulations

Nunziata, Luca; Staffolani, Stefano - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

We present a theoretical as well as empirical analysis of the impact of employment regulations on permanent and temporary employment. We consider three different forms of such regulations, namely insider protection, fixed term contract regulations, and legislation on temporary work agencies, and...

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Labour Market Institutions and Economic Performance

Nickell, S.; Layard, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

This paper is a preliminary draft of a chapter for the new Handbook of Labour Economics edited by Orley Ashenfelter and David Card and Published by North Holland.

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Growth and Jobs in an Adjusting Econmomy. Explaining the decline in Indian Manufacturing Employment in the 1980s.

Bhalotra, S. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996

In the 1980s. India experimented with deregulation in industry and trade. Manufacturing output accelerated but employment declined. The latter has raised doubt regarding desirability of policy reforms.This paper provides an explanation of the employment decline that sheds light on the manner in...

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Job Mobility of Residents and Migrants in Urban China

Knight, John; Yueh, Linda; Yueh, Linda Y. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

The large-scale reform of the state-owned sector and the development of a private sector in the 1990s changed the nature of employment in urban China. The system of allocated, lifelong jobs (the iron rice bowl) that had previously prevailed under state planning was eroded, permitting more labour...

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