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Handbook of the economics of international migration : volume 1 / ed. by Barry R. Chiswick and Paul W. Miller

Chiswick, Barry R., 1942- [Hrsg.] ; Miller, Paul W., 1955-2013 [Hrsg.]

Burlington : Elsevier Science, 2015

Online-Ressource

Englisch

Cover image; Title page; Table of Contents; Introduction to the Series; Copyright; Dedication; Reviewers; Preface; Introduction; In memoriam: Paul W. Miller (1955-2013); Introduction to the Series; Copyright; Dedication; Reviewers; Preface; Introduction; In memoriam: Paul W. Miller (1955-2013); Volume 1A: The Immigrants; Part I. The Determinants of International Migration; Chapter 1: Migration Theory; Abstract; 1 Overview; 2 From Adam Smith to the New Millennium; 3 Recent Theoretical Analyses of Why People Migrate; 4 Conclusions and Implications for Further Research

Chapter 2: Two Centuries of International MigrationAbstract; 1 Migration and Globalization to 1950; 2 International Migration Since 1950; 3 International Migration and Policy in the Future; Cameo 1: World Migration in Historical Perspective: Four Big Issues; 1 Emigration Life Cycles, Industrial Revolutions, and Demographic Transitions; 2 Brain Drain, Brain Gain, Skill Premia, and Endogenous Schooling Responses; 3 Migration, Remittances, Financial Development, and Convergence; 4 Migration Timing, the Ten Percent Rule, and Political Backlash; Acknowledgments

Part II. The Adjustment of ImmigrantsChapter 3: The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market; Abstract; 1 Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes-Theoretical and Methodological Considerations; 2 Individual Attributes and Motives for Migrating; 3 Beyond the Individual-Economic and Social Contexts Affecting Labor Market Outcomes; 4 Labor Market Outcomes for Immigrant Women; 5 Immigrant Economic Adjustment: Evidence from Countries Other than the United States; 6 Summary and Directions for Further Research; Acknowledgments; Chapter 4: The Human Capital (Schooling) of Immigrants in America; Abstract

1 Introduction2 Schooling of Migrants and the Native-Born; 3 The Changing Education Gap of Immigrants; 4 The Educational Diversity of Migrants; 5 Foreign Students at American Schools; 6 Immigrant Education and Generational Assimilation; 7 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 5: International Migration and the Economics of Language; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Research Issues and Methodology; 3 Choice of Destination; 4 Determinants of Language Proficiency; 5 Effects of Language on Earnings; 6 Summary and Conclusions; Acknowledgments; Chapter 6: Immigrants and Immigrant Health; Abstract

1 Introduction2 Determinants of the HIE; 3 The National Health Interview Survey; 4 Measuring Immigrant Health and Assimilation; 5 Analyzing Cohort and Assimilation Effects; 6 The Healthy Immigrant Effect; 7 Conclusions; Chapter 7: Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility; Abstract; 1 Motivation: Why Study Immigrant Marriage and Fertility?; 2 Methodological Challenges to the Study of Immigrant Marriage and Fertility; 3 Marriage and Divorce Among Immigrants; 4 Fertility; 5 Conclusion; Cameo 2: Immigrants and Religion; 1 Introduction; 2 Economics of Religion

3 Immigrant Religiosity

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. - Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 27, 2014)

Erscheint auch als: Handbook of the economics of international migration. Volume 1B, The impact and regional studies. - Oxford, England : North-Holland, ©2015. - xix, 1658 pages (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-444-63372-9 ; 978-0-444-53769-0 ; 0-444-53769-4

0-444-53769-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-444-63372-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-444-53768-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-444-53769-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-444-63372-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

825923840; 82068290X

OCoLC: 899003738     

OCoLC: 915360736 (aus SWB)      ; OCoLC: 1021347811 (aus SWB)      ; OCoLC: 899003738 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Nationallizenz)

MS 3600      Ähnliche Literatur

JV6217 ; JV6217 .C384 2014

325 ; 304.8

Basisklassifikation: 74.80 (Demographie) <Geographie> ; 83.31 (Wirtschaftswachstum)

*Migration ; Berufliche Integration ; Internationaler Arbeitsmarkt      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Emigration and immigration -- Handbooks, manuals, etc -- Government policy ; Emigration and immigration -- Handbooks, manuals, etc -- Economic aspects ; Electronic books ; Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects -- Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc ; Electronic books

Emigration and immigration -- History ; Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects ; Electronic books / Handbooks and manuals ; Emigration and immigration ; Economic aspects ; Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects ; Emigration and immigration ; Government policy ; Handbooks and manuals

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 associate