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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"international migration"”.
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Essays in international migration
… essays examining the effects of high-skilled immigration on various economic outcomes within the receiving country. In the first essay, I study how skilled immigrants affect wages and employment in US industries during 1995-2007, using novel microdata on approved H-1B visas. These data show that …
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Determinants of international migration
Migrations have occurred throughout human history. Today, people inhabit virtually every corner of the world. In fact, given the upsurge in the last few decades, more people are on the move today than at any other point in time. In order to get an understanding of the driving forces shaping …
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International migration flow table estimation
A methodology is developed to estimate comparable international migration flows between a set of countries. International migration flow data may be missing, reported by the sending country, reported by the receiving country or reported by both the sending and receiving countries. For the last …
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International migration of high level manpower
Digitized by Kansas Correctional Industries
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Civil conflict and international migration in Nepal
… with this conflict was a surge in work-related emigration, affecting education and human capital investments, labour supply, and local economic activity. While a few prior studies look at the effects of Nepal’s conflict on emigration, many key features of the conflict are ignored. In particular, …
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Essays on the determinants of international migration
This thesis explores the determinants of international migration of low-skilled workers, in particular, from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries. The first chapter explores how potential migrants trade the risks (of mortality) with (financial) rewards of migrating abroad. The second …
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International migration, electoral strategies and home country elections
How does international migration affect political parties' electoral strategies in the migrant sending countries? And what is the effect of these electoral strategies on migrant and non-migrant families' electoral choices? These are the two research questions that motivate this project. This …
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The political and socioeconomic effects of international migration: The German case
Immigration is a highly controversial and timely topic. Domestically, it affects elections, party politics, and policy-making. Internationally, it shapes relations between states and foreign policies. The dissertation seeks to add constructively to the debates regarding migration by evaluating its …
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The impact of international migration on international trade: an empirical study of Australian migrant intake from Asian countries
In the context of established international economic theory, it is well known that international trade of commodities is effectively trading factors of production such as labour and capital. It follows that if factors of production can be moved internationally, then the need for commodity trade is …
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Post-Cold War migration from Latin America to Latin Europe: a network theoretical analysis of an international migration system
Latin America (LA) was once a region of net immigration, receiving millions of migrants from Europe, particularly Latin Europe (Italy, Portugal and Spain), between the years 1850 and 1950. But in the mid-1990s, this historical migration pattern reversed, and millions of Latin American migrants …
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International migration and social inclusion of migrants in South Africa: the case of Cameroonian Migrants in the Western Cape
The focus of my research is on the experience of Cameroonian migrants, and their relationship with the City of Cape Town. This work focuses on agency on the part of the migrant in understanding the mechanisms/strategies they use in their integration process within their host communities. This …
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Patterns of international migration in the Santiago Metropolitan Area - Characterization of the immigrants' social space and contributions to the national policy debate
International migration to Chile and to the Santiago Metropolitan Area (SMA), its major point of attraction, is a rather recent phenomenon which is gaining more and more attention. According to the latest population census the number of foreigners who were born abroad and permanently live in Chile, …
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A paradigmaváltás esélyei a fejlett országok migrációs politikájában = International Migration and Politics - chances of paradigm change in the migration policy of developed countries
Az értekezés a nemzetközi migráció témakörével kapcsolatos számos aktuális kérdést elemez. Azt a több kutató és gondolkodó által leegyszerűsítetten megfogalmazott gondolatot veszi alapvető kiindulási pontjának, amely szerint a világban egy olyan globalizációs folyamat zajlik, ami szinte mindenre …
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THE IMPACT OF WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION THROUGH MARRIAGE ON SENDING HOUSEHOLDS AND COMMUNITIES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: THE CASE STUDY OF THREE RURAL COMMUNES OF SOUTHERN VIETNAM
This thesis focuses on the international and marriage-based migration of young Vietnamese women to Taiwan and South Korea. The study examines the economic and social impact of this phenomenon on sending households and communities. The study is based on a survey conducted in 2007 in three communes …
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Policy legacies and the politics of labour immigration selection and control: the processes and dynamics shaping national-level policy decisions during the recent wave of international migration
… financial crisis of 2008 saw an increase in international migration flows. This development was accompanied by the relaxation of immigration entry controls for select categories of foreign workers across the developed world. The scale of labour immigration, and the categories of foreign …
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Lietuvos fizinių ir technologijos mokslų specialistų tarptautinė migracija /
… in that process and Lithuania that owing to emigration of highly skilled professionals – especially in certain areas of natural sciences and technology - faces the various challenges. However, is seen missing of theoretical and empirical research to interpret the international migration of …
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Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador
… the transformations brought about by increased international migration since the early 2000s. The broader question is whether or not transnational migration has facilitated political and social upward mobility among indigenous communities. More specifically I ask: in what ways does indigenous …
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Darbo jėgos emigracijos poveikis Lietuvos makroekonominiams rodikliams 2004-2013 m /
The importance of labor emigration and the impact to Lithuanian economy have been analyzed in the Master's work. According to Lithuanian and foreign authors from the various studies, law, scientific literature, in the theoretical part of the labor emigration presents theoretical assumptions: the …
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The role of gender, aspirations, and family structure in Mexican education and migration
… The third chapter focuses on the role of migration in household structure and the educational trajectory of children in migrant-sending families. In the first chapter, I use a sample of approximately 100,000 adults from the first wave of the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS), collected in …
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ESSAYS ON MIGRATION AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
… linkage between foreign direct investment and international migration. Immigration policy and policies regarding the flow of capital across borders are generally enacted separately. Such separation may not be appropriate if there are interactions between immigration and foreign direct …
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