Publications, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Statistics
| Published date | 01 March 1987 |
| Date | 01 March 1987 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2435.1987.tb00130.x |
Publications, Periodicals, Pamphlets, Statistics
GENERAL
De Jongh, R.,
J.,
‘Solidarity in Exchange of
Adaptation
:
Dutch Trade Unionism and Immi-
grant Workers’, International Migration Re-
view,
Vol.
XIX,
No.4,
New York, Winter 1985,
pp. 160-767.
Stark,
0.;
Taylor, E.; Yitzhaki, Sh.
Migration,
Remittances and Inequality: A Sensitivity Ana-
lysis Using the Extended Gini Index,
Discussion
Paper Series,
No.
23, Migration and Develop-
ment Program, Harvard University, Cambrid-
ge, Massachusetts, June 1986, pp.
19.
This paper uses the extended Gini inequality
index to examine the sensitivity of measure-
ments of impact of migrant remittances
on
the
distribution of household income by size to dif-
ferent value judgements when measuring ine-
quality.
World Council of Churches,
Migrant Women
Claim their Rights, Nairobi and After,
Dossier
No. 15, Geneva July 1986, pp. 52.
This issue is an attempt to recapture what was
presented and said in the panel during the Third
Conference of the Decade held in Nairobi in
1985 based
on
the themes and activities of the
United Nations Decade for Women
on
For-
ward-Looking Strategies, which would be a reci-
pe for action to establish greater equality bet-
ween the situation of women and men by the
beginning
of
the next millenium.
Katz, E.; Stark,
O.,
Migration, Information and
the Costs and Benefits
of
Signalling,
Discussion
Paper Series, No.
24,
Migration and Develop-
ment Program, Harvard University, Cambrid-
ge, Massachusetts, June 1986, pp.
11.
This paper examines some implications
of
the
likely lack of information about true
skill
level of
international migrants in their new countries.
In
addition an analysis is offered of the effects
of
the availability of a signalling device
on
both the
patterns and quantity of migration and
on
total
output.
King, R. (ed.),
Return Migration and Regional
Economic Problems,
Croom Helm, London,
1986, pp. 216.
The nucleus of this book is formed by six papers
presented at the Institute of British Geographers
(IBG) Population Geography Study Group
meeting
on
‘Return Migration’ which formed
part
of
the IBG Annual Conference at Leeds in
January 1985. These chapters are mainly based
on
authors’ field surveys of returned emigrants
in various parts of the world, Ireland, Italy, Por-
tugal, Greece, Algeria, Jordan, South Asia, Ja-
maica and Newfoundland.
AFRICA
International Labour Office,
‘Central and West
African Subregional Tripartite Round Table
on
International Migration,
’
Geneva 8- 10 Septem-
ber 1986, (Informal Summary Record),
ILO,
Geneva 1986, pp.
3
1.
Exchange of views
on
present-day problems af-
fecting migrant workers and their countries of
origin
on
employment in West and Central Afri-
ca, with a view to achieving better understand-
ing and closer cooperation among these coun-
tries.
Young, Ch. ‘The Effect of Labour Migration
on
Relations of Exchange Among the Rashaayda
Bedouin of
Sudan’,
Revue Europkenne des Mi-
grations Internationales, Vol.
2,
No.
l,
Poitiers,
septembre 1986, pp. 123- 136.
This article examines the consequences of
labour migration for this small, pastoralist
SO-
ciety.
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