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The Philippines has often been cited as the global model in managing international labor migration. Despite the …
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This paper reviews the Philippine international labor migration management infrastructure using Regulatory Impact … Analysis (RIA) framework. Thirty years of government experience in managing high-volume labor migration has resulted to a … migration management infrastructure based on the laws and regulations promulgated governing international labor migration, and …
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The present paper consists of an extensive description of recent migration in the 8 new European Union member countries which accessed the EU on May 1st, 2004. Since 1989 all of these countries experience an unique shift from socialist to market economy. The paper attempts to capture an...
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This paper considers the education of the labour force based on an analysis of trends in and the relationships between job polarization and skills mismatch. Both job polarization and skills mismatch have become topics of increasing interest, but relationships between the two have been relatively...
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Who are the rural people of Africa? What does it mean to be part of a 'rural' community in contemporary Tanzania? And why is it important to debate questions of African rurality beyond the mere GDP contribution of rural land-based production? This book seeks to address questions like these....
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Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and...
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Julius Weitzdörfer analysiert die Ursachen und Folgen organisierter Kreditkriminalität in Japan sowie Lösungswege aus rechtssoziologischer und rechtsökonomischer Sicht. Denn seit der Jahrtausendwende hat sich Japans Verbraucherkreditwesen durch intensive Regulierung, extensive Rechtsprechung...
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The paper inquires into the impact of contemporary major world events - the recession in the United States and Western Europe, the oil price hike, and the Arab Spring - on the flow of overseas Filipino workers or OFWs and their remittances. The paper finds that the recession in the West has not...
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workers are likely to be secondary breadwinners, (a) household labor income is an endogenous explanatory variable and (b) the …
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Die Auswirkungen gewalttätiger Konflikte auf die Bildung werden traditionell aus der Perspektive des Bildungsangebots analysiert, das heißt im Hinblick auf Verfügbarkeit und Qualität von Schulen und Lehrern. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht dagegen den Einfluss von Konflikten auf die...
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