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Showing 1 to 20 of 154 for “"Home country"”.
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International migration, electoral strategies and home country elections
… used to get more votes, including: clientelism, home visits and the distribution of promotion and advertising materials. Because exposure to migration fosters political disengagement from domestic politics and makes migrant families more inclined to stay home on election day, these …
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Lithuanian Emigrants and Home–Country Elections 2014–2016
… emigrants are aware of and interested in home–country politics? Which Lithuanian emigrants vote and which abstain from home–country elections, and why? How do Lithuanian emigrants make their political choices? This thesis helps us start painting a clearer picture of the external Lithuanian …
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LATINA IMMIGRANTS, HIV, AND THEIR EXPIERENCES WITH HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN THE U.S. AND THEIR HOME COUNTRY
The intersection of factors associated with immigration in the Latina population and available culturally sensitive health care has not been well examined. There is a scarcity of research available that examines factors specific to the Latina population that contribute to HIV/AIDS education, …
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Selected West African agricultural students' view of their United States graduate training and education in light of their expected home country agricultural jobs and conditions
Agriculture in West Africa is one of the most important economic activities and a major source of national income. For the past few decades, agricultural production has declined considerably, resulting in poorer economy and serious food shortages.
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Multiproduct firms and outward foreign direct investment
… abroad are the most productive firms in the home country. The most productive firms in the home country have the greatest scope of products. This paper shows that outward investor firms have the greatest range of products in the home country. As a result of engaging in OFDI, these outward …
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Essays on the effects of home legal institutions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on foreign IPOs in the US
… of this thesis is to investigate the role of home country legal institutions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) on the reporting quality, pricing and performance of foreign initial public offerings (IPOs) in US capital markets. The specific characteristics of foreign IPOs as have been recognized …
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A study of the influence of religiosity, materialism and animosity on consumer ethnocentric behaviour
… and animosity causingwillingness to purchase home-country products among home country consumers. Study 2repeated the same conceptual scheme to investigate the behaviours of UK based Pakistaniconsumers. Representing two different cultural contexts, a total of 1050 responses wereobtained and …
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Foreign direct investment: causes and consequences. The determinants of inward and outward FDI and their relationship with economic growth
… relating to developed countries using aggregate country FDI data are limited. This study empirically tests the determinants of FDI inflows and outflows and their relationship with economic growth using 2SLS simultaneous equations model between 1981 and 2008 for a sample of 20 developed OECD …
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The decision to study abroad: evidence from international students based in Ireland
… Increasingly, students choose to leave their home country to study abroad. This decision is not only coupled with financial and time costs, but also involves the challenges of new cultures. This thesis examined push and pull factors, investments and expected returns on foreign education, and …
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Competitive Advantage, HRM Strategy, and Firm Performance: The Experiences of Indigenous Firms and MNC Subsidiaries in Korea and Taiwan
… Japan, and Europe. There were some between-host-country variations (between Korean and Taiwanese firms). That is, Korean firms (both indigenous firms and foreign subsidiaries) had higher scores at training than their Taiwanese counterparts, after controlling for size and industry. There were also …
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A Confirmatory Multivariate Study of the Nature of Second Language Proficiency and Its Relationship to Learner Variables (Acquisition, Covariance, Analysis, Structural Equation Models, Lisrel, Foreign, Teaching English as A Foreign Language, Tefl)
… learner variables ('formal learning in home country,' 'home country and family use of English,' and 'formal learning in an English-speaking country') and motivation affect proficiency; (b) background learner variables affect proficiency while the latter affects motivation; (c) background …
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Investigation of Mentoring Relationships of Korean Expatriates in the United States in Relation to Adjustment and Demographic Similarities
Utilization of host country employees with a home country background as mentors for expatriates is suggested. The results showed that Korean-American mentors met the psychosocial mentoring needs of the Korean expatriates as much as the Korean mentors did. Future research directions were suggested.
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Strategic Contemplation as One Saudi Mother’s Way Of Reflecting on Her Children’s Learning Only English in the United States: An Autoethnography and Multiple Case Study of Multilingual Writers at the College Level
… were raised in the United States outside their home country for almost seven years while the parents were government scholars earning degrees. This is also autoethnography and literacy narrative in which the researcher traces her education in a Quranic girls’ school in Dammam, Saudi Arabia and …
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The Life Experiences of Ten Female Refugees from Iraq and Iran: An Oral History Research Study
… lives: previous experiences in the refugee’s home country prior to resettlement; adaptation to a third country during the resettlement process, especially in regard to experiences with resettlement agencies; and finally, resettlement as refugees in the United States. An oral history …
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An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study of Eastern European migrants' experiences of arriving at and sense of belonging to a mainstream secondary school in the UK
The UK is a highly diverse country which over the last 10 years has seen a vast increase in immigration with the majority of migrants being from Eastern Europe. The aim of this research was to increase our understanding of Eastern European, migrant students' experiences of transition from their …
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Reluctant Germans: performing identity abroad
… which facilitates their connectedness to both home country and receiving society while abroad. This form of multiple connectedness implies a transnational identity as described by various authors. The particularity of these respondents' performance of national identity in Cape Town is based on …
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Adoption of foreign institutional practices and industrial development: Understanding the cross-level interaction effects
… knowledge acquisition at both the firm and country levels in developing economies. Using a developing country lens, the objective of this study is to determine if foreign institutional practices acquired by SSA firms has a significant effect on their home country's industrial development. …
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The dynamics of global financial crises
… of the transition probabilities for a three country example suggest that minor trading partners can increase the likelihood of a crisis in the home country through their effect on major trading partners.
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Transnational ‘Interruptions’ in Eritrean Refugee Lives in the Bay Area
<p>For many refugees, the day they flee their home country is the start of the interruption of their life. For refugees, such interruption brings the absence of continuity and loss of vision for the future, that they have to be present in the current situation – not knowing their future. This …
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