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) extending the retirement age, (ii) augmenting labor migration within the region, and (iii) through using population accounting …
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We examine households' temporary international migration response when faced with shocks in rural Kyrgyzstan. Using a … household fixed effects model, we find that while a drought shock increases migration, a winter shock reduces migration. We … increase in the need for labor services. Migration increases when the former effect of a shock dominates and it reduces when …
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Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses representative data at local and national scales to analyze labor market...
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We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
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We use panel data for rural Kyrgyzstan to examine households' international migration response when faced with shocks …. Using a household fixed effects regression model, we find that while a drought shock increases the likelihood of migration …, winter and earthquake shocks reduce the likelihood of migration. We use a simple theoretical framework to illustrate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497952
This paper investigates the impact of foreign labour on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia, a country where foreign labour immigration has played a key role in manufacturing growth over the past two decades. The main focus of the paper is on an econometric analysis of...
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amongst contemporary Kyrgyzstan's most acute and hotly debated topics. This paper is focused on international labour migration … crisis on Kyrgyz labour migration, and the mitigating role played by the EAEU for Kyrgyz workers. This paper also highlights …
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affecting the future demand for skills. For regional economies built on labour migration, the impending changes will affect … disrupt the development benefits of migration. This paper investigates how the future of the employment landscape will affect … migration within the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, a regional consultative process for migration in Asia. It investigates the impending …
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With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Asians became the victims of a sudden increase in racial discrimination as public officials repeatedly referred to the virus as the "Chinese virus." We document that Asian entrepreneurship has been disproportionally hurt after January 2020, particularly...
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focus on seasonal migration from rural to urban areas as a potential coping strategy and review the evidence on the effects … of encouraging seasonal migration through transport subsidies. Over the past 10 years, we have conducted a series of … randomized control trials in Bangladesh and Indonesia that provided rural agricultural workers with small migration subsidies to …
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