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Unskilled and short-term labour migration from Bangladesh to Malaysia has long historical phenomenon which has been … paper objective is to describe migration process, pattern and policies as a sending country (Bangladesh) and receiving …, Malaysia and also World Bank migration and remittances database. The arithmetic analysis indicates that there is no …
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matter of concern in the region. We study this issue for Uganda, investigating whether the migration of household members … migration of children has a significant positive impact on child school attendance rates while that of adults has a … significantly negative effect, and that remittances have no influence. These findings suggest that migration of children is indeed …
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We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
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view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
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This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...
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The rapid growth of international migration and remittances has led to a wealth of research examining these trends. One … of these lines of research attempts to determine the relationship between migration, remittances and the adoption of … “Green Revolution” high yield variety (HYV) seeds. This literature proposes that migration and remittances may increase HYV …
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program. In addition, migration occurring one year prior to the 1961 and 1990 censuses was also considered in separate …
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This paper investigates how sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries could harness remittances through formal channels for development using annual data for 35 countries from 1980 to 2008.We control for country heterogeneity, endogeneity and cross-sectional dependence of the error term using the...
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This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged … duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories … are also overrepresented among people with only temporary as opposed to long-term or permanent migration plans. Whereas …
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Bhutan is a small landlocked country in the Himalayas between China and India. Poverty reduction has been rapid from about 23 percent in 2007 to 12-13 percent in 2012. Gender equality and women's empowerment are important determinants of reproductive health. Contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR)...
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