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Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the study assessed the multifactorial drivers of...
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Labor migration to Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has massive effects on the GCC, the countries migrants come from, and the migrants themselves and their families. Yet existing research on the effects of Gulf migration is marked by its extreme scarcity, reliance on descriptive...
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Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although foreign investment has been flowing into China and employment in the low-wage industries is...
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Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack of information on the immigrantsâ … matching for immigrants has been conducted prior to their leaving the home country using home country wages as the outcome …
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The analysis focuses on immigrants and native-born individuals because employers are likely to have less reliable … empirical finding that the wage gains associated with height are almost twice as large for immigrants than for native …
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This paper examines the potential gender impacts of the trade reforms in plantation agriculture in the emerging context …
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Budget speech by Minister of Finance. [Ministry of Finance]. URL:[http://www.finance.gov.pk/budget/budget_Speech_12_13.pdf].
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internal geographical trade and migration costs. [ICRIER Working Paper 268]. …
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, the study shows that since there has been an increase in services trade between the two countries, the inclusion of … services in the agreement (CEPA) would give an impetus to trade. The study shows that there is scope for Indian investment in … trade in services since the signing of the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement is studied. Also, the anomalies in …
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The impact of liberalisation on labour markets is examined by the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and …
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