Based on information collected from a sample survey of 480 Korean migrants who had worked in the Middle East, and in-depth interviews with 39 households.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the relationship between migration trends and social structure - argues that landowner-rural worker relations based on land tenure and feudalism comprise a foundation for increased mobility and the transition to capitalism (i.e. Social class differentiation,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the social structure and labour market in the agricultural sector in Turkey - discusses the historical background of peasant farmer landowner system, impact of agricultural mechanization (tractorisation), incidence of landlordism in sharecropping and capitalist...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the role of industrial policy and social structures in the implementation of technology transfer in the textile industry and electronics industry in Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand - evaluates a survey of managers covering sources of technical...

ILO pub. Article on reduction of rural migration through strengthening the ruralsocial structure in the USSR - examines current trends and causes of rural outmigration, emphasizing importance of social service disparities between urban areas and rural areas, and suggests that social development...

Finance is in the midst of a paradigm shift, from a neoclassical based framework to a psychologically based framework. Behavioral finance is the application of psychology to financial decision making and financial markets. Behavioralizing finance is the process of replacing neoclassical...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting a theoretical framework for an employment status approach to data collecting on labour force - discusses the definition of exploitation, underemployment, division of labour, occupation, skill, labour force, etc.; proposes a taxonomy of labour status...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the migrant worker labour market in Southern Africa - provides a theoretical framework for economic analysis of demand determinants and supply relationships in an economy of surplus labour supply, discusses development policy considerations and forms part of a...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on (1) the theoretics and realities of workers self management in Yugoslavia, and (2) investment decision making in self managed enterprises - constitutes part of a WEP research project on population and employment. References.