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There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
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Working for labour platforms is still relatively rare, but the generally poor working conditions and the impact on the world of work are the subject of much debate. Although data are scarce, there is a general consensus that migrants are overrepresented in this type of work. Platforms may well...
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objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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difficulties. This study explores potential future employment dynamics across European industries and employment groups for the …
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This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period from 1988 to 2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment …, there are long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels …
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India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human … interviews of entrepreneurs and workers across the three largest SEZs (in terms of their contribution to exports and employment …) : SEEPZ, Madras and Noida. The analysis reveals that `employment generation' has been the most important channel through which …
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...
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Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility …. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women …
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employment of national workers. However it increases the workers' exertion, decreases prices and thus can counter anti …
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In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence … of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal … foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and …
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