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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 …
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national census survey to investigate discrimination in urban labour markets against rural migrants, by comparing their … earnings and the sector (formal vs. informal) they work in with those of urban residents and urban migrants. Exploiting … differences in their status in the Chinese residential registration system (hukou) we find no earnings discrimination against …
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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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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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A large-scale randomized experiment was conducted in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396].
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The study looks at the relationship between indigenous people and their forest homes using a novel field field experiments approach. [Policy Brief No. 48-10]. URL:[http://www.sandeeonline.org/uploads/documents/publication/906_PUB_Policy_Brief_48_Rucha.pdf].
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proportion of rural migrants below the 25th earnings percentile increases significantly by almost 19 percentage points. [Working …
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, discrimination against daughters, is to be addressed. Clearly, it is not only about implementing the PCPNDT Act but also the various … laws that can indeed play a central role in moulding the process of social change to eventually eliminate discrimination … discrimination or keep it intact. The lack of implementation of laws, their faulty or at times discriminatory provisions or the …
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