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"The shift in the labour force from agriculture to the manufacturing sector in India has not been a smooth process. Although the manufacturing sector has seen an increase in employment, the share of the manufacturing sector in total employment has not changed and rural areas are continuing to...
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This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the … bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from … offers an unusually nuanced view of the strains that migration places on families” Christina Boswell, University of Edinburgh …
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This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the … bus, sea, and air. The monograph evaluates several theories of migration against rich qualitative data gathered from …: the Health-Migration Order -- 5. Return to Sender: Remittances, Communication and Family Conflict -- 6. Getting One …
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The global city thesis and the migration thesis concern two important dimensions of the impacts of contemporary … globalization on cities. The two theses are intrinsically linked. The central question is how we should approach migration in the … construct an integrative analytical framework linking global city and migration, and empirically apply it to Sydney. We build a …
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This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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