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This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries – or countries of the global ‘South …’ – and processes of human development. The paper offers a critical analysis of the concept of South-South migration and draws … attention to four fundamental problems. The paper then gives a broad overview of the changing patterns of migration in …
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presence of ICTs. The research then looks at instances where ICTs affect the opportunity for migration and how they affect its … paper surveys research that demonstrates how ICTs are used in both regular and irregular migration, in maintaining family …
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providing a broad overview of the limited demographic and socio-economic data available on migration to and within South Africa … reforming frameworks governing domestic mobility including perceptions that in-migration is an inherent drain on municipal … international and domestic migration. (2) An analytical respatialisation in future planning and management scenarios involving …
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new dataset on migration flows and stocks and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending … countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it extends the empirical model of migration choice across multiple … international migration. Our estimates show that bilateral migration flows are increasing in the income per capita gap between …
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World Trade Organization is reciprocity in tariff setting. When it comes to migration from poor to rich countries, however …
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We analyze a newly available dataset of migration policy decisions reported by governments to the United Nations … aimed at either maintaining the status quo or at lowering the level of migration. We also document variation in migration … of destination countries’ migration policies (policies towards family reunification, temporary vs. permanent migration …
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relationship between migration and human development operates in genderdifferentiated ways. However, because migration policy has … examination of recent trends in women’s migration, internationally and within nations. It then considers the implications of the … socio-economic context of the sending location for women migrants. The process of migration, and how that can be gender …
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This paper argues that mobility and migration have always been an intrinsic part of human development. Migration can be … considered as a fundamental capabilities-enhancing freedom itself. However, any meaningful understanding of migration needs to … migration, it is more appropriate to conceive of a continuum running from low to high constraints under which migration occurs …
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, and accelerating institutional change. All these characteristics of migration make it an essential policy issue for the … detailed information on global labor movements and heterogeneity, and reports new projections on global migration patterns … between labor and other factors of production. For example reducing migration raises the premium on migrant labor in the …
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proved elusive thus far. This paper explores the potential for migration to serve as a safety valve as well as a medium term …
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