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Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater …
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that influence willingness to pay for improved sanitation services for the households without any latrine facilities in … household willingness to pay and affordability to pay for basic sanitary latrine options. [RED WP No.1]. …
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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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China and employment in the low-wage industries is expanding, wages of Chinese workers are not rising. In fact, China 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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social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
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This paper tries to focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting characteristics of short duration and permanent migration. The study applies the widely recognised demographic technique of...
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In many developing countries plastic bags are a significant environmental problem. This is particularly true in the city of Delhi, which faces rapid development with un-matched and inadequate waste management systems. To address this problem, the government of Delhi passed a blanket ban on the...
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Climate change is one of the most important issues of the next decades and has the potential to severely impact societies, economies and human wellbeing.
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