764 results in Publications & Writing
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621. Publications & Writing
The Deadly Rampages of April
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622. Publications & Writing
The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism
Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security, ethnicity, and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the global financial crisis, contributors examine chang…
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623. Publications & Writing
The Demographic Benefit of International Migration: Hypothesis and Application to Middle Eastern and North African Contextsfar
This paper argues that international migration may have resulted in a smaller world population than in the non migration scenario. The author claims that most of recent migration has been from high to low birth-rate countries, and since migrants typically adopt and send back idea…
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624. Publications & Writing
The Demographic, Economic and Financial Determinants of International Remittances in Developing Countries
Using data from 76 developing countries, this paper analyzes how such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates affect the level of international remittances received by different developing countries. Controlling for endogeneity usi…
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625. Publications & Writing
The Development Imperative: Toward a People-Centered Approach
This volume emerges from the first annual International Forum for Development (IFD), held in New York City on October 17-19, 2004. Amidst growing dissatisfaction with development strategies that have failed to produce adequate rates of growth or to distribute resources equitably,…
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626. Publications & Writing
The Development of Home Town Associations in the United States and the Use of Social Remittances in Mexico
This paper examines the development of Mexican Hometown Associations (HTA) in the United States and the use of their social remittances in Mexico. Money remittances sent by individuals, households, and HTAs may serve as an indirect engine of regional economic development and also…
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627. Publications & Writing
The Effect of Emigration on the Labor Market Outcomes of Sender Households: A Longitudinal Approach Using Data from Nicaragua
This paper uses panel data from two large, nationally-representative household surveys in Nicaragua (1998 and 2001) to examine the impact of international migration on labor market participation and poverty. With panel data, the author is able to control for selectivity by usin…
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628. Publications & Writing
The Effects of Migration on Child Health in Mexico
This paper investigates the impact of international migration on child health outcomes in rural Mexico using a 1997 nationally representative demographic survey. To correct for the endogeneity of migration status, the authors use historic migration networks -- 1920s, state-level…
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629. Publications & Writing
The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States
What is the best way to run the modern business corporation? What is the appropriate balance between shareholders, managers, and employees? These questions are being hotly debated as scandals and restructurings rattle companies around the world. The standard assumption is that gl…
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630. Publications & Writing
The End of Tolerance: Engaging Cultural Differences
Daedalus, Number 129, Volume 4, Fall 2000. Sponsored by the Working Group on Ethnic Customs, Assimilation and American Law.
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