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Explaining U.S. immigration, 1971-98
Clark, Ximena - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523081
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Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market : a dynamic approach
Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394185
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Race, immigration, and the U.S. labor market : contrasting the outcomes of foreign born and native blacks
Walque, Damien de - 2008
interaction between race and immigration. The study compares the labor market outcomes of four racial groups in the United States …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521022
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Sequencing fiscal decentralization
Bahl, Roy W. - 2006
"While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization often struggle with decisions about the essential components...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522147
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Pakistan - Federal Procurement Baseline Indicator Systems Assessment
World Bank - 2012
The Baseline Indicators (BLIs) assessment has been conducted by the Development Partners and the Government of Pakistan as a precursor to carrying forward the Government's efforts to upgrade the Country Procurement Systems (CPS) to international standards and to help it assess the level and type...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550925
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Bulgaria : Issues in Intergovernmental Relations
World Bank - 2013
Municipalities play a large role in the Bulgarian public sector. They provide primary and secondary education. They own and operate about one-third of the hospitals in the country. Until 2003, they administered all the major social assistance programs (except pensions and unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559155
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Immigration policy and foreign population in Switzerland, volume 1 0f 1
Gross, Dominique Marie - 2006
government has tried to manage the flows of migrants in the hope of reconciling a chronic excess demand for labor with mounting … of immigration policy and its goal has become very weak and the level of foreign population is at an all time high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522207
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The foreign-born population in the European Union and its contribution to national tax and benefit systems : some insights from recent household survey data
Barbone, Luca - 2009
2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as … highly educated workers. Both sets of migrants uniformly contribute to raising the working-age population of receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394193
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel - 2009
norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394219
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The Malaysia-Indonesia remittance corridor : making formal transfers the best option for women and undocumented migrants
Hernández-Coss, Raúl (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521355