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International labor migration in Vietnam and the impact of receiving countries' policies

Ishizuka, Futaba - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

Labor export has been part of Vietnamâ€™s socio-economic development strategy since the beginning of the doi moi era. Recent years, Vietnam has sent about 80,000 workers abroad per year. Vietnam has become a major source country of unskilled foreign workers for high-income East Asian...

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Migration, labor and business in the worlding cities of the Arabian Peninsula

Gardner, Andrew M. - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

these emergent economies, the multifaceted impact of migrants and migration upon these host societies, and the role of …

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Authoritarianism and labor market : preference of labor policies in the Arab Gulf countries

Matsuo, Masaki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Migrant and labor issues are a primary concern in the Arab Gulf countries. With focus on the economic and political conditions that influence actors' decisions when framing labor policies, this study analyzes how preferences of such policies are formed and explains why the governments of the...

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Foctors that prevent children from gaining access to schooling : a study of Delhi Slum households

Tsujita, Yuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

the worsening urban poverty and sizable increase in rural-to-urban migration. Bias against social disadvantage in terms of …

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Is the anti-trafficking framework really for the 'victims'? : reflections on Burmese victims of human trafficking and non-trafficked migrants in Thailand

Yamada, Miwa - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011

Since the year 2000 when the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, human trafficking has been regarded as one of the egregious violations of human rights, and global efforts have been made to eradicate it. The anti-trafficking framework...

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A note on ethnic return migration policy in Kazakhstan : changing priorities and a growing dilemma

Oka, Natsuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

This paper offers a brief analysis of the legal aspects of the ethnic return migration policy of Kazakhstan, a post … changes in migration-related legislation in the late 2000s and early 2010s, the paper notes that two key goals of Kazakhstanâ …€™s migration policy are not necessarily consistent with each other: the promotion of an ethnically based nation-building project by …

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Skilled emigration and exchange rate : theory and empirics

Paul, Saumik; Ouyang, Alice; Li, Rachel Cho Suet - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

In this paper we build a theoretical model on the wage effect of skilled emigration to the fluctuations in real exchange rate through the relative prices of nontradables. Our theoretical model predicts that skilled emigration is associated with an increase in the prices of nontradable, which in...

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Returns to migration : the role of educational attainment in rural Tanzania

Kudo, Yuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

Given the migration premium previously identified in an impact evaluation approach, this paper asks the question of why … migration is not more prominent, given such high premium associated with it. Using long-term household panel data drawn from … education in the migration premium. By separating migrants into those that moved out of original villages but remained within …

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Marriage as women's old age insurance : evidence from migration and land inheritance practices in rural Tanzania

Kudo, Yuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can...

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Migration as a rural development strategy and the migrants involved : an account of a migrants' hometown in Sichuan, China

Yamaguchi, Mami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

This paper attempts to describe part of the history of Chinese rural migration to urban industrial areas. Using a case …, migration in the township has offered diverse means of social mobility to the local peasants. The paper concludes by considering …

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