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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Labor Migration"”.
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Labor Migration in China
… a more and more important position in the labor market. Therefore, from this dissertation, we try to explore different topics related to the migrants in China. This dissertation consists of three essays on who chooses to migrate, how networks affect migrants' outcomes, and what is the …
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Social geographies of seasonal labor migration in rural western India
In this dissertation, I study the seasonal migration of landless communities in rural western India. My research explains how labor migration has transformed gender, caste, and class relations in the drylands of Maharashtra state in India. I study labor migration as a social process, which …
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The Ethics of Labor Migration: From Social Protection To Commodification
Growing scholarship critiques ideas of migration as a development tool, however it remains a key policy instrument for sending states who seek to foster development. These critiques point to the importance of how sending states perceive their roles in the lives of migrants abroad, suggesting that …
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Labor Migration from Uzbekistan: Social and Economic Impacts on Local Development
… study of social and economic impacts of external labor migration and incoming remittances on local development in Uzbekistan. The study consists of seven chapters, where a thorough analysis of existing literature and studies in field was done and based on empirical analysis and survey results and …
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Bangladeshi workers in Singapore: A sociological study of temporary labor migration
This thesis examines Bangladeshi temporary labor migration to Singapore. Research on labour migration has experienced an excessive domination by economic explanation during the last several decades. Econometric analysis has been such a dominant factor in the studies of international labour …
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An Optimal Control Approach to the Off-Farm Labor Migration Problem
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Made for export : labor migration, state power, and higher education in a developing Philippine economy
… Philippines have led to an enormous exodus of labor. Failing to integrate its highly educated labor force in the domestic economy, the Philippine state focused its attention on exporting college-educated/highly-educated workers by creating a set of elaborate institutions to facilitate overseas …
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The Karen of Andaman Islands: Labor Migration, Indian Citizenship and Development of a Unique Cultural Identity
… Islands present a unique story—a story of migration, transformation and endurance. This paper presents the findings of my ethnographic fieldwork of 2014 contextualized through extensive secondary research of Andaman and Karen history. Some data supported my initial expectation of rapid …
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"My People is a People on its Knees": Mexican Labor Migration from the Montana Region and the Formation of a Working Class in New York City
… examines the contemporary proletarianization via migration of the indigenous and mestizo people from the Montaña region, in the Mexican southern state of Guerrero, to New York City. The dissertation demonstrates how the region was transformed since the 1980s into a migrant labor supplier and how …
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The impacts of rural-to-urban labor migration on the rural environment in Chongqing municipality, southwest China: Mediating roles of rural household livelihoods and community development
… more dynamic factor of population processes – migration. The mediating factor approach to population and environment provides a basic theoretical model for understanding the complex relationship between migration and the environment. Thus far, few studies have been conducted on the …
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Does migration benefit disadvantaged workers?
Human capital theory, the dominant approach to labor migration, assumes that workers who migrate improve their economic well-being.
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The role of skilled labor pool in driving firms to agglomerate: an empirical study on China's policy experiment
… agglomeration forces operating through skilled labor mobility. Specifically, this research uses a natural experiment in China regarding to skilled labor migration liberalization to examine the impact of skilled labor pool and knowledge availability on China’s industrial agglomeration. The …
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Rural Labor Productivity on Small Farms in the State of Rio Grande Do Sul - Brazil
… access and use of rural credit, agricultural labor marginal productivity and effects of agricultural labor migration to urban areas in microregion 325 in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The study is related to the agricultural year of 1978/1979 and data was collected in the municipio …
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ESSAYS ON A SMALL OPEN ECONOMY WITH CROSS-BORDER LABOR MOBILITY
… come from existing migrants or result from migration when families at home experience income contraction caused by weather or natural disaster shocks. Chapter 1 provides some interesting findings. First, the results show that an economy with international migration is more resilient to …
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Three essays on the labor allocation decisions of the modern farm family
… payments in the allocation of off-farm labor through three essays. Government payments have been a part of agriculture since 1933 and at no time has the government stated a policy objective of decreasing the agricultural labor force. Using time series data and new econometric techniques, …
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Ethnic boundaries redefined: The emergence of the "Permanent outsiders" in Singapore
… the context of globalization and international migration in Singapore. The discourse in Singapore is centered on CMIO multiethnicity and Singaporea??s ethnoscape comprising a unique a??CMIOscapea??a??imagined and constructed not only by the state and the local CMIO communities, but also by …
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Transnational Activism for Migrant Workers: Examining the Struggles for Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
… in their greater poverty and the subsequent migration of their workers to affluent destinations. Migrant workers experience various difficulties as a result of the shortcomings of the sending and receiving states to safeguard their welfare; hence, the imperative for transnational activism to …
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Family closeness, parental role fulfillment and immigration stress: a study on Filipino American young adults' satisfaction with parental upbringing
Overseas labor migration has enabled many Filipinos to meet the needs of their families. However, findings from several studies suggest that immigration also adversely impacts the well-being of immigrant families. Previous research (e.g., Qin, 2006), for instance, shows that immigrant parents’ …
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