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After giving an overview of the state of migration policy in developing countries with special reference to Pakistan this paper essentially revisits the issue of policy and its effect on rural to urban migration under an extended family theoretical framework. This specific approach is motivated...
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Literature on migration and network effects suggests that the rate of migration is positively related to the extent or degree of personal and community level networks potential migrants have at the destination. However in this particular paper it is shown that when the decision making unit is...
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the eight MDGs. The MDGs include eradication of extreme poverty and hunger; universal primary education; gender equality … elementary participation rate, the elementary cohort survival rate, gender equality in education, the maternal mortality rate and …, namely : Goal 1 (poverty and hunger), Goal 2 (education), Goal 3 (gender equality), Goal 5 (maternal health), Goal 6 (control …
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inquiry that reveals that education plays a major role in accessing more remunerative nonfarm employment. Other household …
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educational capital. However, in education, the rich and the poor are separated by two different educational divisions …--private and public--and of high quality and low-quality education. Poor children encounter lack of access to quality education due … to a high dropping out rate at an early age and going to public schools that offer low quality education. The lack of …
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jointly explains patterns of political participation at the individual level and differences in public investment in education …
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In order to explain the apparently paradoxical presence of acceptable governance in many non-democratic regimes, economists and political scientists have focused mostly on institutions acting as de facto checks and balances. In this paper, we propose that population plays a similar role in...
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This paper analyses gender dimensions in rural to urban migration (age 10 years and above) in Pakistan. The study is based on Labour Force Surveys 1996-2006. The findings of the study show that overtime internal migration (age 10 years and above) remained unchanged. Female migrants dominate in...
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We construct an axiomatic index of spatial concentration around a center or capital point of interest, a concept with wide applicability from urban economics, economic geography and trade, to political economy and industrial organization. We propose basic axioms (decomposability and...
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This paper investigates the trend of the wage inequality and the metropolitan wage premium in the United States during the 1980s. Two distinct sets of literature documented that the wage inequality between skilled and unskilled workers and the metropolitan wage premium have risen significantly...
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