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Over the last several years, the Government of Togo has made important advances in the area of social protection. Although Togo has had limited social insurance and social assistance programs, the economic shock and natural disasters starting in 2008 brought the need for better mechanisms of...
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from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …
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2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … Union-13 countries (members prior to the 2004 enlargement, not including Germany and Luxembourg) were born in other European … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as …
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norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed …
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"It is generally expected that immigrants do not fare as well as the native-born in the U.S. labor market. The literature also documents that Blacks experience lower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paper innovates by studying the interaction between race and immigration. The study...
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the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and … lead to greater entry into relatively capital-intensive enterprises by migrants' origin households. "--World Bank web site …
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decade, as a general framework of the study (chapter two). The connection between the labor market integration of migrants … transnational activities of migrants. Chapter three presents the objectives of the research and the related survey design and … description of demographic and economic conditions of interviewed migrants, the core of this section is devoted to the analysis of …
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This handy pocket guide is a quick reference for users interested in the gender statistics. It presents gender …
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