Occupation Choice, Information, and Migration

Occupation choice: Family, Social and Market influences

The advance of knowledge-based societies has modified the labor markets and qualification requirements. In this sense, and considering that individual choices about careers and occupations have pervasive social effects, there is a growing interest from both academics and policy makers in understanding and influencing the process of education choice. Specifically, there is a worldwide renewed co...

Gender, Occupation Choice and the Risk of Death at Work

Women and men tend to work in different occupations. There has been substantial movement over the last forty years toward a more even distribution of men and women across occupations, but differences persist. Although a great deal of research has been devoted to the measurement of trends in occupation segregation by gender, very little work has focused on the underlying job choice process that ...

study bird’s migration by using remote sensing and Geographic Information System. (case study of bird’s migration in the alikhan wetland)

of this Research is the study and evaluation of the relationship between vegetation area and water area with the number of birds in Band-e-Alikhan wetland between 2011 and 2015. Due to the importance of Band-e-Alikhan wetland as a seasonal wetland with fresh water, which is located 35 km south of Varamin city, it has been used as a study area. In the present study, first, the necessary pre-proc...

The optimal migration duration and activity choice after re-migration

If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: what determines their optimal migration duration, and what are the activities migrants choose after a return. Little research has been devoted to these two issues. This paper utilises a unique survey data set which records activities of returned...

Information and Public Choice