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Migration and Gender Empowerment: Recent Trends and Emerging Issues
Ghosh, Jayati - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
typically been gender-blind, an explicit gender perspective is necessary. This paper attempts this, beginning with an … socio-economic context of the sending location for women migrants. The process of migration, and how that can be gender … section provides some recommendations for public policy for migration through a gender lens. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467203
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Human Development Impacts of Migration: South Africa Case Study
Landau, Loren B.; Segatti, Aurelia Wa Kabwe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Controls on human mobility and efforts to undermine them continue to shape South Africa’s politics, economy, and society. Despite the need for improved policy responses to human mobility, reform is hindered by lack of capacity, misinformation, and anti-migrant sentiments within and outside of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559101
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Human Development Impacts of Migration: South Africa Case Study
Landau, Loren B.; Kabwe-Segatti, Aurelia Wa - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
Controls on human mobility and efforts to undermine them continue to shape South Africa’s politics, economy, and society. Despite the need for improved policy responses to human mobility, reform is hindered by lack of capacity, misinformation, and anti-migrant sentiments within and outside of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467205
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Gender and Intra-Regional Migration in South America
Cerrutti, Marcela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines the process of feminization of South American intra-regional migration, with emphasis in the Southern Cone. It describes recent changes and trends, and addresses some of the most salient issues on the participation and experiences of female migrants. It deals with the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559057
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Gender and Intra-Regional Migration in South America
Cerrutti, Marcela - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
This paper examines the process of feminization of South American intra-regional migration, with emphasis in the Southern Cone. It describes recent changes and trends, and addresses some of the most salient issues on the participation and experiences of female migrants. It deals with the social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467206
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Intergenerational transmission of risk attitudes : the role of gender, parents and grandparents in Burkina Faso
Sepahvand, Mohammad H.; Shahbazian, Roujman - 2017 - This version: November 2017
this socialization decreases when we control for parents risk attitudes. Third, since there are strong gender roles in … dominated risk domains. This gives support for the gender-specific role model hypothesis in terms of risk attitudes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756513
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Economic Preferences and the Self-selection of Immigrants
Zhan, Crystal; Deole, Sumit - 2022
, conditional on age, gender, education, and a series of origin country's economic and political factors. However, individuals are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348126
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Economic Preferences and the Self-selection of Immigrants
Deole, Sumit S.; Zhan, Crystal - 2022
, conditional on age, gender, education, and a series of origin country’s economic and political factors. However, individuals are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014078248
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Economic preferences and the self-selection of immigrants
Zhan, Crystal; Deole, Sumit S. - 2022
, conditional on age, gender, education, and a series of origin country's economic and political factors. However, individuals are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013357802
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The Political Economy of Immigration Policy
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We analyze a newly available dataset of migration policy decisions reported by governments to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs between 1976 and 2007. We find evidence indicating that most governments have policies aimed at either maintaining the status quo or at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559020