Rainfall and self-selection patterns in Mexico-US migration

Self-Selection and International Migration: New Evidence from Mexico

This paper uses high-quality and previously unused data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the selectivity by labor market skill of male migrants to the United States, and how the selectivity of migrants changes as costs and bene…ts of migration change. We con…rm that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, and present similar evidence of...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Current trends and patterns of female migration: evidence from Mexico.

"This study uses a new source of data to assess trends and patterns of female migration from Mexico. Data were collected from migrants interviewed in ten Mexican communities from 1987 through 1990, as well as from outmigrants from those communities who were later located in the United States. The first part of the analysis examines changes in migrant behavior throughout the 1980s by estimatin...

self-revision and third party revision in translation

اهمیت این پژوهش در آن بود که به گفت? بسیاری از پژوهشگرانِ حوز? بازبینی ترجمه، ادبیات موجود در این زمینه به لحاظ نظری و عملی چندان قوی نیست و بخش های موجود نیز برداشت مناسبی از این مرحل? فرایند ترجمه ندارند، اگرچه اخیراً توجه به آن به صورت نظام مند افزایش یافته است. در عین حال، پژوهش های موجود از یک سو بر دگربازبینی بیشتر از خودبازبینی تأکید دارند و از دیگر سو تنها به لحاظ نظری به این موضوع می پرد...

Patterns of US Internal Migration in late 90s