MIGRATION AND LABOUR MARKET IN PERIPHERAL AGRICULTURAL REGION: RELATIONSHIP AND AUTONOMY

Labour Migration and Rural Agricultural Production in Southwestern Nigeria

In recent years, Nigeria witnessed significant labour migration coupled with reduction in rural agricultural productivity. Youths abandoned farms for ventures with high returns and less drudgery in cities thus labour availability in peak agricultural seasons became scarce. The declining farm population constituting mostly women and old men are not capable of producing sufficient food for the no...

Labour, Birth and Autonomy

Several crucial bioethical concerns arise regarding physician approaches to caesarean sections in light of their increasingly high numbers. I have argued [1,2] that current obstetrical practices advocate active labour management and thus encourage or even demand the use of technology to manage labour and birth. Social pressures increase women’s perceived need to use reproductive technologies an...

Great Expectations - migration and labour market outcomes in Australia

The Labour Market Impacts of Forced Migration

One of the key consequences of civil conflict is forced migration. The United Nations Population Division (2013) suggests that from the total global stock of 232 million international migrants in 2013, about 16 million (6.8%) were refugees. Just recently, over 2 million Syrians have been displaced since the conflict started in March 2011 (UNHCR, 2013). The magnitude and frequency of forced disp...

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...