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Labour and migration in rural VietnamThis paper provides an overview of the characteristics of migrant households and analyses the effects of migration in Vietnam, on the basis of the Vietnam Access to Resources Household Survey conducted in 2012 and 2014...
Emigrant remittances Households Labour mobilityBlog
What Does it Mean to be in the Middle?: Mobility and Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean
Luis-Felipe Lopez-Calva [1] The concept of social class and specifically middle class, has been widely discussed in sociology and other social sciences, but mostly ignored in modern economics...
Households Human capital Income distributionBook Chapter
The International Circulation of Elites: Knowledge, Entrepreneurial, and PoliticalFrom the book: The Role of Elites in Economic Development
Emigration and immigration Entrepreneurship Foreign workersBook Chapter
Globalizing Shanghai: International Migration and the Global CityFrom the book: Urbanization and Development in Asia
Emigration and immigration Labour mobility Internal migrationBook Chapter
Fiscal Decentralization and Urbanization in IndonesiaFrom the book: Urbanization and Development in Asia
Economic policy Labour market Labour mobilityJournal Article
Efficiency frontier and matching process on the labour market: Evidence from TunisiaThe purpose of this paper is to study the determinants of the inefficient functioning of the Tunisian labour market...
Econometric models Income distribution Labour marketWorking Paper
Efficiency Frontier and Matching Process on the Labour Market: Evidence from TunisiaThis paper studies the determinants of the inefficient functioning of the Tunisian labour market...
Econometric models Labour market Labour mobilityWorking Paper
The International Circulation of Elites: Knowledge, Entrepreneurial and PoliticalInternational migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper...
Emigration and immigration Entrepreneurship Foreign workersWorking Paper
Globalizing Shanghai: International Migration and the Global CityCities are the focal point for the mobility of talents, located between the nations and firms, states and educational institutions...
Emigration and immigration Labour mobility Internal migrationWorking Paper
Fiscal Decentralization and Urbanization in IndonesiaIndonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking and service delivery functions to the subnational tiers of government (provinces and districts)...
Economic policy Labour market Labour mobilityWorking Paper
The Danish Model and the Globalizing Learning Economy: Lessons for Developing CountriesAlthough Denmark shares with the other four Nordic countries certain attributes, such as pragmatic protestant religion, small and homogenous population, strong social democratic parties and ambitious welfare states, it also has its own characteristic...
Economic development Economic growth Economic policyBook Chapter
Causes and Consequences of Talent MobilityFrom the book: The International Mobility of Talent
Higher education Emigration and immigration Human capitalBook Chapter
The International Mobility of Talent and Economic Development: An Overview of Selected IssuesFrom the book: The International Mobility of Talent
Economic development Emigration and immigration Human capitalBook
The International Mobility of Talent: Types, Causes, and Development ImpactEntrepreneurs, technical experts, professionals, international students, writers, and artists are among the most highly mobile people in the global economy today...
Education Emigration and immigration Human capital