Search Results - subject:"LABOR MIGRATION"

Primitive Accumulation and the Labor Subsidies to Capitalism

Wilson, Tamar Diana - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 44 (2012) 2, pp. 201-212

It is argued in this paper, following the insights of Rosa Luxemburg and others, that primitive accumulation is a constant and ongoing process integral to capital accumulation. Concentrating on workers who are raised and sustained in times of unemployment by subsistence agriculture or informal...

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The Migratory Response of Labor to Special Economic Zones in the Philippines, 1995–2005

Sanders, Scott; Brown, David - In: Population Research and Policy Review 31 (2012) 1, pp. 141-164

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Feast or flee: Government payments and labor migration from U.S. agriculture

D’Antoni, Jeremy M.; Mishra, Ashok K.; Barkley, Andrew P. - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 2, pp. 181-192

data and new econometric techniques, this study finds agricultural policy may have an unintended impact on labor migration …. Specifically, we find that government payments increased labor migration from the farm. From 1939 to 2007, increased direct …

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Exploitation, vulnerability to tuberculosis and access to treatment among Uzbek labor migrants in Kazakhstan

Huffman, Samantha A.; Veen, Jaap; Hennink, Monique M.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 6, pp. 864-872

In recent years, Kazakhstan has become an important destination for primarily undocumented seasonal workers from Uzbekistan. In a context of high tuberculosis (TB) incidence, TB treatment is provided free for all residents in Kazakhstan, but migrants rarely access these services. This paper...

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Payments for ecological restoration and internal migration in China: the sloping land conversion program in Ningxia

Démurger, Sylvie; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012) 1, pp. 1-22

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Tax Avoidance

Kopkin, Nolan - In: Journal of Sports Economics 13 (2012) 6, pp. 571-602

identify the effect that changes in income tax rates have on the labor migration decisions of NBA free agents. After …

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Labor migration and child mortality in Mozambique

Yabiku, Scott T.; Agadjanian, Victor; Cau, Boaventura - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2530-2538

Male labor migration is widespread in many parts of the world, yet its consequences for child outcomes and especially … childhood mortality remain unclear. Male labor migration could bring benefits, in the form of remittances, to the families that … data from Mozambique collected in 2006 and 2009 to examine the association between male labor migration and under …

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The Impact of Foreign Labor on Host Country Wages: The Experience of a Southern Host, Malaysia

Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Devadason, Evelyn S. - In: World Development 40 (2012) 8, pp. 1497-1510

This paper investigates the impact of foreign labor on domestic manufacturing wages through a case study of Malaysia, a country where foreign labor has played a key role in manufacturing growth over the past two decades. The main focus of the paper is on an econometric analysis of the...

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MIGRATION TRENDS OF THE LABOR FORCE IN THE SLOVAK REPUBLIC AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM

Kotuliè, Rastislav; Adamišin, Peter - In: Polish Journal of Management Studies 6 (2012) 1, pp. 81-88

At present time, there is no single coherent systematic theory that would fully explain the causes of the migration or the motivation that leads to the population migration. Migration theories aim for explanations for the population migration. The idea that prevails is that the employment and...

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Payments for ecological restoration and internal migration in China : the sloping land conversion program in Ningxia

Démurger, Sylvie; Wan, Haiyuan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

This paper analyzes the impact of the Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP) on rural labor migration in China. We use … policy on labor migration decision. We find a significant effect of the policy: the migration probability increase due to the …

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