Return Migration, Occupational Change, and Self-Employment

Self-Employment, Health Insurance, and Return Migration of Middle-Aged and Elderly Mexican Males

Return migration and occupational change: the case of Pakistani migrants returned from the Middle East.

This paper reports on the factors affecting occupational composition of Pakistani workers upon their return from Middle East employment locations as determined by using the 1986 ILO/ARTEP Survey of Return Migrant Households. Three issues related to post-migration occupation change of return migrants were explored: 1) the comparison of occupational composition in the pre-migration phase with th...

Under-employment and rural migration in iran

A dynamic analysis of net migration and state employment change.

"The dynamic relationship of net migration and employment change is examined for ten selected states of the U.S. using a multivariate time series approach--a vector autoregression (VAR) model. Granger causality tests and dynamic multipliers provide information on the dynamic process. The results suggest a state-level process in which employment change occurs first, and net migration follows wi...

Self-employment in joinery: an occupational risk facor?

OBJECTIVES Only a few studies have analyzed the health of self-employed workers. This cross-sectional study is the first to compare health status among craftsmen joiners and paid joiners. MATERIAL AND METHODS Clinical and paraclinical data for self-employed craftsmen and employees were collected by occupational health doctors according to a standardized protocol and compared. Health data and ...