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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Beam, Emily; McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - eSocialSciences - 2013
international labor migration. [BREAD Working Paper No. 396]. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945224
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A Study on Emigration Attitudes of Young Singaporeans (2010)
Hoong, Leong Chan; Soon, Debbie - eSocialSciences - 2012
The study examines the intention to work abroad based on a representative sample of young Singaporeans residing in the city-state. Two thousand and thirteen Singaporeans between the age of 19 to 30 years took part in the research. [Working paper No. 19].
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Kerela's Gulf Connection: Emigration, Remittances and their Macroeconomic Impact 1972-2000
Kannan, K. P.; Hari, K. S. - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper attempts to construct a time series estimation of remittances from abroad to the Kerala economy for the period 1972 to 2000. It is now widely acknowledged that foreign remittances in the economy of the State of Kerala in India in the form of money sent by its workers in the Gulf...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694250
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The Effect of Direct Foreign Investment on Domestic Firms: Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data in Emerging Economies
Konings, Jozef - eSocialSciences - 2009
productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland …
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India’s Population: Past, Present and Future
Dyson, Tim - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper presents a lecture delivered by the author under The Pravin Visaria Public Lecture in GIDR. India has made considerable demographic progress since 1947; however it seems that the country’s population will reach about 1.4 billion by the year 2026. In case of mortality, despite major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980027
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Unfree Mobility: Adivasi Women's Migration
Mazumdar, Indrani - eSocialSciences - 2014
migration among tribal women has not fundamentally altered their conditions of historical disadvantage in the agrarian economy … additional disadvantage. While the principal patterns of tribal women’s migration have been identified in the paper with an eye … on the nature of work/employment relations being shaped by their migration, and its implications for an equality and …
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The Return of the Prodigy Son: Do Return Migrants Make Better Leaders?
Mercier, Marion - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper investigates the impact of political leaders’ migration experience on the quality of their leadership. A … results are confirmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may affect politics in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133117
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Trade, Tastes and Nutrition in India
Atkin, David - eSocialSciences - 2013
similar consumers. This effect only disappears two generations after migration, as tastes adjust to local prices. These …
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A Review of Internal and Regional Migration Policy in Southeast Asia
Hickey, Maureen; Narendra, Pitra; Rainwater, Katie - eSocialSciences - 2013
This working paper provides an overview of migration policy analysis in academic and policy (‘grey’) literature for … Southeast Asia, as well as a brief outline of the current migration policy environment in each of the eleven states of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133132
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An Investigation into Changes in Nagaland's Population between 1971 and 2011
Agrawal, Ankush; Kumar, Vikas - eSocialSciences - 2013
Nagaland’s population decreased during 2001–11 after growing at abnormally high rates during the past few decades. This is the first time since independence that a state in India has witnessed an absolute decline in population. In this context, the paper examines the census...
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