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PubMed1990

Counting Pakistanis in the Middle East: problems and policy implications.

"Using Pakistan as a case study, this article focuses on the difficulties of measuring both the outflow of workers over time and the stock abroad at any particular time. The various estimates of the number of Pakistanis in the Middle East are evaluated and an alternative estimate is provided based on hitherto unused data from two major surveys of returning workers. The alternative estimate differs substantially from the others, the difference being attributed principally to clandestine worker immigration. The concluding section discusses the policy implications of inaccurate information about the numbers of workers abroad and the likely effects of the current Persian Gulf crisis on Pakistan's economy."

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PubMed1988

Sociological analysis of migration of agricultural labourers from eastern to north-western region of India.

The authors examine rural-to-rural migration of agricultural workers from eastern to northwestern India. "The specific objectives of this study were: (a) to identify the socio-economic characteristics of the immigrant farm workers; (b) to explicate the causes of migration; (c) to analyse the impact of migration on the pattern of employment, wages, acculturation and interpersonal relations; and (d) to examine the socio-cultural and economic impact of migration on the migrants' families." Data are from a 1984-1986 survey.

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PubMed1990

[Aging and education of the Quebec population].

"Having projected the composition of the population of the province of Quebec for the years 2011 and 2031 with respect to level of education, the author suggests ways in which an increase in the overall level of scholastic attainment could help Quebec meet the challenge of an aging population. According to him, a better educated population would be more productive and less dependent on public finances when it reached retirement. Such a population would cost less in terms of health care and could, if needed, remain in the labor force past retirement age." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND SPA)

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PubMed1992

Multinomial logistic models explaining income changes of migrants to high-amenity counties.

"A survey of residents of and migrants to 15 fast-growing wilderness counties [in the United States] showed that only 25 percent of the migrants increased their income, while almost 50 percent accepted income losses upon their moves to high-amenity counties. Concomitantly, amenities and quality of life were more important factors in the migration decision than was employment, for instance. We focused on migrants in the labor force and employed multinomial logistic regression to identify the impact of migrants' characteristics, their satisfaction/dissatisfaction with previous location (push), and the importance of destination features (pull) on income change."

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PubMed1991

["To find life": migration and subsistence strategies in the Haitian peasantry].

"The objective of this article is to present briefly some results of two research projects on migration and the subsistence strategies of Haitian households. Fieldwork for these two projects were undertaken in Haiti (1982) and French Guyana (1986-1987). The methodology is mainly qualitative and the collection of life histories constitutes the main data source." The author notes that "the increasing social and economic marginalization of the peasant population, the exodus of the young labor force, and the educational and migratory strategy of parents for their children are all but a few factors which transform the traditional peasant mode of living. Given the actual state of the economy and polity in Haiti, emigration generates emigration." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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[New migratory flows of the Brazilian population].

"This article focuses [on] the recent emigration of Brazilians abroad. In the post World War II period, a new type of international migration was observed, caused by demands for labor in the receiving countries, where immigrants are integrated into the secondary labor market. The programs created to stimulate temporary foreign migrations resulted in the recent illegal migrations of Brazilians, most of them working in unskilled jobs. The study is based on data from a preliminary survey on the migratory flow from the city of Governador Valadares in the State of Minas Gerais, to Boston, in the U.S." (SUMMARY IN ENG)

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PubMed1992

A study of labor resources in northeast Asia.

"This paper will discuss questions such as the tapping, utilization and rational distribution (international migration) of labor resources that have already begun and will continue to expand in the regional economic and technological cooperation of Northeast Asia.... In the broad sense, Northeast Asia refers to the Soviet Far Eastern Economic Division and the Siberian Economic Division; the Northeast, North, and Northwest of China; Mongolia; Korea, South Korea and Japan; its area being 17.5 million square kilometers, or 40% of the Asian land area. Its population is 580 million, or 20% of the total population of Asia."

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PubMed1993

Asian-born scientists and engineers: their immigration flow and labor market adjustment.

"This paper examines the flow of Asian-born scientists and engineers and their labor market adjustment. First, main elements to affect their immigration flow are described: supply, demand, and institution....The scarcity of domestic workers is the most important factor affecting demand of immigration. Institution, such as immigration policies, is another element to influence the immigration flow....Second, by using the 1980 U.S. Census data set, their labor market adjustment is explored in terms of hourly wages. Compared to the native-born white, there is no evidence that Asian-born scientists and engineers receive lower wages or lower return on human capital."

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PubMed1991

Italy in the context of European migration.

"This article is divided into three sections. The first section analyses the transformation of Italy and other Southern European countries from nations of emigrants to nations of immigrants. In the second section, the volume and characteristics of immigration to Southern Europe are analysed in an attempt to point out, given the context of national characteristics, the similarities in the phenomenon of non-European migration. In the third section, an attempt is made to analyse the role played in the labour market by migrants from developing countries and to present evidence of the expansion of the underground Italian economy." Comments by R. Magni are included (pp. 113-4).

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PubMed1994

Interregional migration and interindustry labour mobility in Canada: a simultaneous approach.

"This paper argues that interindustry labour mobility and interregional migration are simultaneously determined processes. It estimates a bivariate probit model of migration and mobility [using data for Canada] and concludes that the interindustry mobility of labour is dominated by the availability of employment hours, and that wage differentials are a statistically significant, but small, determinant of interregional migration.... Since interindustry mobility is much larger in magnitude than interregional migration, quantity constraints in labour markets are of central importance to the adaptive capacity of the economy." (SUMMARY IN FRE)

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PubMed1994

Taikongs and Calos: the role of middlemen and brokers in Javanese international migration.

"This article discusses international migration from Java in the past and present and the role brokers have played in stimulating this movement. It describes legal and clandestine labor migration to Singapore, Malaysia, and Saudi Arabia, the influence of employment brokers on the process, and the organization of the recruitment networks. The involvement of brokers is crucial but not always beneficial for the migrants. Migrants are dependent on the brokers and risk exploitation. In the case of movement to Saudi Arabia, there is a linkage with religious institutions and the Islamic pilgrimage."

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