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Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes on the emigration of doctors and engineers from...
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We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...
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We hypothesise that women's participation in wage (off-farm) work is reduced when their greater water needs due to the … participation of affected (pre-menopause) women by about 10 percentage points, a large effect. As expected, there is no adverse … causal impact of poor household access to water for women post-menopause, or for men, ceteris paribus …
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Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of...
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Unemployment and low wages prevailing in the domestic market pushes female workers to look for better employment abroad. Investment in the shape of remittance further builds human capital, financial capital, and the social capital. The aim of this study is to analyze the trend of Bangladeshi...
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A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender … differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …. This differential has been attributed to labor market discrimination against women. Using data from 2003 and 2010 Household …
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. I study immigration and emigration female and male stock separately as women make up about half of the cross …
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/female ratio. We explore whether this results in Mexican women entering high-skilled and better paying jobs over time. This … question is relevant since there has been an increase in women's education and labor force participation across the developing … world, but less evidence of improvements in the gender wage gap. Using an instrumental variables strategy that relies on …
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A gender differential in wages is considered to be discriminatory if the differential cannot be explained by gender … differences in productivity. Numerous studies have been performed to measure the extent of gender wage discrimination in countries …. This differential has been attributed to labor market discrimination against women. Using data from 2003 and 2010 Household …
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and child-rearing - a critical omission when analyzing gender differences in earnings. This paper constructs a better … can be generated using commonly available data on labor force participation rates by age and gender to gauge the … underestimate the contribution of gender differences in work experience in explaining the gender wage gap. …
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