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Emigration Intentions: Mere Words or True Plans? Explaining International Migration Intentions and Behavior [PDF]
Do people follow up on their intentions? In this paper we confront the emigration intentions formed by inhabitants of the Netherlands during the year 2004-2005 and the emigration steps they took in the subsequent two years. Three results stand out. First,
Dalen, H.P. van, Henkens, K.
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Using 18 years of data on eastern grey kangaroos, we show that drivers of individual reproductive success often do not scale up to population recruitment. Birth asynchrony could buffer population recruitment against environmental variability, such that variables affecting individual reproduction have little impact at the population level.
Rachel Bergeron +4 more
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ABSTRACT The objective of our study is to examine how migrant labour shifts due to the COVID‐19 pandemic influenced the adaptation behaviour of climate‐vulnerable farmers in Nepal. We examine how the resulting temporary change in climate change adaptation behaviour may be sustainable and improved after migrant labour returns to overseas employment by ...
Amrit Shrestha +4 more
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Immigration Discourse and the Prospects of Russian Language in Lithuania
In contrast to the ongoing emigration, immigration to Lithuania cannot be called intensive, and this topic as a whole remains on the periphery of public and academic attention.
Alla Likhachiova
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The Effects of High Skilled Immigration in a Dual Labour Market with Union Wage Setting and Fiscal Redistribution [PDF]
We study the effects of high skilled immigration on employment and net income in the receiving economy where the market for low skilled labour is distorted by union wage setting and a redistributive unemployment benefit scheme.
Moritz Bonn
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Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
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Making sense of immigration policy : Argentina, 1870-1930. [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to disentangle the different forces shaping Argentine immigration policy from 1870 to 1930. Although immigration restrictions increased over time Argentina remained relatively open to mass migration until the 1930s in contrast ...
Sánchez-Alonso, Blanca
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Abstract The forthcoming general election will be the most consequential electoral contest for the Republic of Ireland in a century. The polity is situated in truly novel territory with the potential for an historic first: the incoming of a Sinn Féin‐led, left‐wing government.
Chris Ó Rálaigh
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Why Compulsory Voting is Not the Answer
Abstract Electoral turnout in the UK is low and uneven. This has led to renewed interest in compulsory voting, which has been advocated in recent reports from The Constitution Society, Labour Together, and the Institute for Public Policy Research. This article offers a critical perspective on these proposals.
Ben Saunders
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