The International Migration of Women - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0821372270 ISBN 13 : 9780821372272

Editeur : World Bank Publications, 2007

Synopsis

The current share of women in the world's international migrant population is close to one half. Despite the great number of female migrants, there has until recently been a striking lack of gender analysis in the economic literature on international migration and development. This volume makes a valuable contribution in this context by providing eight new studies focusing on the nexus between gender, international migration and economic development. The volume is organized into five parts. Part I sets the stage for the remaining chapters by outlining data on female migration and by reviewing previous research on gender and international migration. Part II explores gendered determinants of migration and remittances and contains two studies. One of them explores the determinants of migration using a unique dataset from rural Mexico. The other study examines gender-specific determinants of remittances using a new dataset collected in major destination countries. Part III addresses the impacts of migration and remittances on sending countries, and provides two analyses of household level data from Ghana and Mexico. Part IV turns to the labor market insertion of female migrants, and explores their labor market participation and performance in the U.S.. The volume concludes with a forward-looking chapter which summarizes the major findings of this volume, links these to policies and outlines some of the burning policy issues that need to be addressed by future research.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MAURICE SCHIFF is a Lead Economist in the International Trade Unit, Development Research Group. He currently directs a Research Program on International Migration and Development has published various articles on the topic and has co-edited a book entitled International Migration, Remittances and the Brain Drain which was published in 2005. He co-directed a research project on Regional Integration which generated a large number of articles in refereed journals, a Symposium Issue of the WBER, the book Regional Integration and Development (published in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish), and the Policy Research Report Trade Blocs. He also co-directed an earlier research project entitled 'The Political Economy of Agricultural Pricing Policy', which generated a large number of articles, a five-volume series in English and a volume in Spanish. He has also published on game-theoretic analyses of commodity trade policy; social capital; the geography of trade; nutrition; and trade- and FDI-related technology diffusion. His work has included policy analysis and advice in Chile, the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Morocco, Nicaragua, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, the West Bank and Gaza, and other countries in Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, in the areas of trade policy, migration, and agriculture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Bank Publications
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0821372270
• ISBN 13: 9780821372272
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 236
• Éditeur: Schiff Maurice, Morrison Andrew R., Sjöblom Mirja
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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