Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Migration decisions"”.
-
Impact of migration costs, microcredit, and remittances on cross-border labour migration decisions: Evidence from a Cambodian household survey
Over the past two decades, the migration of Cambodian workers has contributed to poverty reduction and economic development. However, it has also constituted a substantial challenge, in view of the significant increase in the exodus of Cambodian migrant workers, particularly the migration to …
-
Missionary to migrant: How serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints impacts migration decisions
… domestic, international, and transnational migration trends. The Philippines is one of the greatest sending nations of migrants to countries throughout the world, which is immensely driven by individual and household economic strategy as well as national economic infrastructure that buoys …
-
Understanding and quantifying value capture and the role of information in migration decisions : a case of the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Corridor, India
… to unpack how rural residents across India make decisions to migrate to urban centers in the Ahmedabad -Mumbai corridor and analyze if those decisions are concomitant with helping them achieve their migration intents. The study uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze 52 origin …
-
An Assessment of Youth Perceptions of Youth Employment Initiatives and Attachment to Community as Determinants of Migration Decisions Among the Youth in Keta Municipality of Ghana
<p>Youth migration from rural to urban areas in Ghana, particularly to cities like Accra, Tema, Kumasi, and Takoradi continues to rise, despite ongoing efforts to improve youth employability and reduce urban influx. This study examined the extent to which youth attachment to community and …
-
Sponsorship and migration in Northeast Thailand
… is widely recognized as a major factor in migration decisions. However, the extent to which it encourages potential migrants to move has been little documented. This study documents the role of urban sponsorship in rural to urban migration decisions, specifically sponsorship in Northeast …
-
DO CASH TRANSFERS IMPACT MIGRATION? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PROCAMPO AND PROGRESA ON SHORT-TERM MIGRATION IN MEXICO
… government, Procampo and Progresa, on short-term migration (migration for a period of less than 12 months). Using the 2002 Mexican Family Life Survey, a logit model is used to estimate the effect of these cash transfer programs on household migration decisions. The empirical results suggest that …
-
DO CASH TRANSFERS IMPACT MIGRATION? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PROCAMPO AND PROGRESA ON SHORT-TERM MIGRATION IN MEXICO
… government, Procampo and Progresa, on short-term migration (migration for a period of less than 12 months). Using the 2002 Mexican Family Life Survey, a logit model is used to estimate the effect of these cash transfer programs on household migration decisions. The empirical results suggest that …
-
Internal migration, remittances and household welfare: evidence from South Africa
… the economic linkages between internal labour migration and the welfare of migrant-sending households and communities. The analysis is couched in the new economics of labour migration theory, which recognises the familial participation in migration decisions and therefore the potential role of …
-
Circular migration in Thailand
Circular migration is a temporary form of movement and has emerged as a subset in the field of migration and has gained importance since it is the major factor affecting population movements within the countries. This study documents the role of socio-demographic and other characteristics in …
-
Determinants of Southern Nevada in-migration: Similarities and differences between labor force and elderly migrants
Studies concerned with Southern Nevada in-migration flows have previously based their conclusions upon limited data and assumptions; further, they have stressed the importance of economic conditions in the states of origin as the primary cause of migration. This study, however, presents a more …
-
Sociology of planned migration: A study of planned migration process to new towns
Sociology of Planned Migration, the subject of this thesis, is the product of a research into the movement of firms and workers from the inner areas of London to new towns. It is mainly a contribution to the sociology of planning, although its broader aims and objectives are: (a) To develop the …
-
Dynamic Feedback-Driven Thread Migration for Energy-Efficient Execution of Multithreaded Workloads
… on the system. For example, judicious thread migration decisions can provide significant power savings. Typical schedulers, however, fail to make power aware migration. This master thesis focuses on comparing the effects of using resource aware analytical models, and a machine learning model, …
-
Impact of Migration on Welfare of Migrant Sending Households in Selected Rural Areas of Zimbabwe
The New Economics of Labour Migration theory, recognizes family participation in migration decisions as a strategy for moving out of poverty, thus signaling potential welfare linkages between migrants and family members left behind. The current study investigates the impact of migration on welfare …
-
Labor Migration in China
… what is the intergenerational impact of parental migration on children's risk preferences. In the first chapter, we briefly introduce the motivation and contribution, and then we provide the methods and detailed findings in the following chapters. Chapter 2 examines the impact of the endogeneity …
-
Leveraging Processor-diversity For Improved Performance In Heterogeneous-ISA Systems
… from one ISA format to another for cross-ISA migration and execution. Lastly, this thesis presents a processor-preference-aware scheduling policy that makes dynamic cross-ISA migration decisions that improve overall system throughput compared to homogeneous-ISA systems. This thesis prototypes …
-
Essays in Environmental and Development Economics
… equilibrium model of individuals’ education and migration decisions to study this question in the context of Indonesia’s Sekolah Dasar INPRES program, the largest school construction program in history.
-
A Model to support the decision process for migration to cloud computing.
… for provisioning computing and IT services. Migration from traditional systems setting up to cloud computing is a strategic organisational decision that can affect organisations’ performance, productivity, and growth as well as competitiveness. Organisations wishing to migrate their legacy …
-
Gender, migration decision-making and social changes in Roi-et Province, Northeastern Thailand
… and why gender issues influence the process of migration decision-making and social change through the combination of household relations and gender relations. The rationale underpinning this objective was that such changes have brought about considerable adjustments to livelihood strategies …
-
Analysis of on-premise to cloud computing migration strategies for enterprises
… a limited deployment of new applications or migration of part of existing applications integrating backwards with on-premise applications. To take advantage of the Cloud, enterprise will need to define their short and long term Cloud strategy. They will need to consider factors specific to …
-
Autonomous migration of vertual machines for maximizing resource utilization
… To solve this imbalance problem, virtual machine migration has been introduced, where a virtual machine on a heavily loaded physical machine is selected and moved to a lightly loaded physical machine. The selection of the source virtual machine and the destination physical machine is based on a …
Page 1 of 2