This paper examines the effects that changes in the Chinese government’s methods of labor control have had on rural migrant workers in the Guangdong province. The situation of rural migrant workers in China resembles that of foreign migrant workers in other countries, because institutional barriers such as the hukou (household registration) system prevent rural migrants from becoming permanent ...

hydatid disease, caused by echinococcus granulosus, is a common infectious disease in endemic areas such as southern europe and the middle east. the incidence of this disease, however, is on the increase in northern europe due to the migration of labor and also tourism. we report a case of the hydatid cyst of the mediastinum, the diagnosis of which was established by the hemagglutinin test and ...

Along the global trend of economic development, it is often observed rapid industrial transformation accompanied by contitual rural-urban migration. In many developing countries there are yet abundant supplies of “surplus labor.”We construct a small open, dynamic framework to examine how the existence of this large supply of rural, unskilled labor a¤ects trade, urbanization, capital accumulatio...

While migration is a basic element of population dynamics in most societies, in Iran, rural-urban migration is a particular concern of both social scientists and policy makers. Rural-urban migration accounts for over half of the growth of most Iranian cities. On the other hand, this movement is often cited as having negative effects on rural area, including a shortage of supply of agricultural ...

Moderate e ects of pollution on health may exert an important in uence on labor market decisions. We exploit exogenous variation in pollution due to the closure of a large re nery in Mexico City to understand how pollution impacts labor supply. The closure led to an 8 percent decline in pollution in the surrounding neighborhoods. We nd that a one percent increase in sulfur dioxide results in a ...

T he migration of labor across international boundaries has increased rapidly since 1990. More than 190 million individuals now live outside the countries of their birth, and the majority of migrants leave developing countries for countries with higher living standards than those of their home countries. Remittance flows have risen quickly over the same time frame, and in 2007 aggregate officia...

Accompanied by the continuous transformation of the industrial structure, massive rural labor in China has begun their migration to nonagricultural industries. This huge transfer of rural labor has shown a positive pushing influence on the transformation of China’s industrial structure, creating a timely opportunity to the development of agriculture and the structural transformation of the rura...

Employing LL iobbDouglas specification for the production function and a modified iinear expenditure system, the paper presents an econometric model of household production, consumption and labor supply behaviour for a semi-commercial farm with a competitive labor market. The model, estimated from p.l,-iary, cross-sectional, Malaysian data, is used :o analyse the impact of migration, output pri...

Title of dissertation: STUDYING THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF INTERNAL LABOR MIGRATION USING SURVEY AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA SOURCES Christopher F. Goetz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor John C. Haltiwanger Department of Economics This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter motivates the use of a novel data set combining survey and administrative...

International migration and private transfers by immigrant workers to their home countries have proved to be vital elements in the economic sustainability of small nations in Latin America. These transfers, identified as remittances, are one of the largest foreign financial inflows into El Salvador, exceeding garment manufacturing exports and official foreign aid. However, remittances may induc...