The migration of labor
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The migration of labor
B. Blackwell, 1993, c1991
- : pbk
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"First published 1991"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book models afresh labour migration and various phenomena and processes associated with it. It builds on three premises. First, that though migrants are often individual agents, there is more to labour migration than an individualistic behaviour. Migration by one person can be undertaken in pursuit of rational optimizing behaviour by a group of persons such as the family. Second, there is more to labour migration than a response to wage differentials. Third, a great many migratory phenomena would not have occured if the set of markets and financial institutions were perfect and complete. The book attempts to explain labour migration in the light of these three premises and their interactions. It offers new insights on why and when entities such as families may find it optimal to behave strategically, to act simultaneously in, and to distribute their human capital across, several markets, and to sequence their actions in a particular fashion. The book demonstrates how migration is ingeniously and efficiently harnessed to assume a variety of tasks.
It also takes a novel look at how migratory outcomes are fed back into and modify the very market environments that stimulated migration.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction Part I: Overviews Part II: Migration and Risk Part III: A Relative Deprivation Approach to Migration Part IV: Labour Migration Under Alternative Informational Regimes Part V: Migrants' Remittances: Motives, Consequences and Inequality Implications Part VI: Planning with Migration Part VII: The Economic Performance of Migrants.
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