Handbook of the Economics of International Migration

The Immigrants Volume 1a
Herausgeber: Chiswick, Barry; Miller, Paul W

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Produktbeschreibung

The economic literature on international migration interests policymakers as well as academics throughout the social sciences. These volumes, the first of a new subseries in the Handbooks in Economics, describe and analyze scholarship created since the inception of serious attention began in the late 1970s. This literature appears in the general economics journals, in various field journals in economics (especially, but not exclusively, those covering labor market and human resource issues), in interdisciplinary immigration journals, and in papers by economists published in journals associated with history, sociology, political science, demography, and linguistics, among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science
• Seitenzahl: 810
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 193mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1882g
• ISBN-13: 9780444537645
• ISBN-10: 0444537643
• Artikelnr.: 41245145

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1:  THE DETERMINANTS OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION 1. Migration
Theory.  Orn Bodvarsson, Nicole B. Simpson, Chad Sparber 2. Two Centuries
of International Migration.  Joseph Ferrie and Timothy J. Hatton Cameo 1: 
World Migration in Historical Perspective: Four Big Issues. Jeffrey
Williamson
Section 2: THE ADJUSTMENTS OF IMMIGRANTS 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in
the Labor Market.  Harriet Orcutt Duleep 4. The Human Capital (Schooling)
of Immigrants in America. James P. Smith 5. International Migration and the
Economics of Language. Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller 6. Immigrants
and Immigrant Health.  Heather Antecol and Kelly Bedard 7. Immigrants and
Demography:  Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility. Alicia Adsera and Ana Ferrer
Cameo 2: Immigrants and Religion. Carmel Chiswick 8. Immigrants' Access to
Financial Services & Asset Accumulation.  Nour Abdul-Razzak, Una Osili,
Anna Paulson 9. From Aliens to Citizens: The Political Incorporation of
Immigrants. Pieter Bevelander and Mikael Spang 10. Selective Outmigration
and the Estimation of Immigrants' Earnings Profiles. Christian Dustmann,
Joseph-Simon Görlach
Section 3: TYPES OF IMMIGRANTS 11. High-Skilled Immigration in a Globalized
Labor Market. James Ted McDonald and Christopher Worswick 12. The
Refugee/Asylum Seeker. Aimee Chin and Kalena E. Cortes 13. Undocumented
Immigration and Human Trafficking. Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny 14.
Guest or Temporary Foreign Worker Programs. Philip Martin