Anthropological accounts of labor mobility in the post-Soviet region have tended to focus on commoditization, securitization, and illegalization migrant wage labor, rather than generation surplus through harnessing mobile life itself. Bringing together discussions “clinical labor” (Cooper Waldby 2014) with analysis work, essay explores strategies transnational recruitment for supposed Asian ooc...

"The purpose of this article is to place Chinese labor migration from agriculture within the context of the literature on labor mobility in developing countries by comparing it to undocumented Mexican migration to the United States. The similarities fall within three general areas: the migration process, the economic and social position of migrants at their destination, and the agrarian structu...

Human capital is one factor that significantly influences local economic growth. Our goal in this research is to analyze trends in local human capital dynamics during the past thirty years. The authors find little evidence of convergence in college attainment across metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas and evidence of divergence across Census regions. The authors also find within-distribution...

Prior studies find that hospitals face upward-sloping RN labor supply, which is taken as evidence of monopsonistic power. But previous research finds little relationship across labor markets between RN wages (relative to alternative wages) and measures of market size or hospital density. This inconsistency might be resolved if “classic” monopsonistic power varies over time owing to demand-suppl...

This article examines the changes to and relations between labor policy and labor legislation in the context of China’s market transition with a focus on the 1994 Labor Law and the 2007 Labor Contract Law. The initial impetus to labor policy change came from the unemployment crisis at the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s. Since then, the state has relaxed its control over labor mobility and...

The remarkable increase in trade flows and in migratory flows of highly educated people are two important features of globalization of the last decades. This paper extends a two-country model of interand intraindustry trade to a rich environment featuring technological differences, skill differences and the possibility of international labor mobility. The model is used to explain the patterns o...

The article examines the legal regulation of labor mobility workers in Ukraine as one conditions for development and functioning social relations today's conditions. It is noted that market, an integral part country's economic system, mirrors most political socio-economic processes taking place state, focuses on acute problems: high unemployment, increasing structural disparities employment, un...

background labor pain is one of the most intense pains. physiological, personality, psychological, cultural, and environmental factors are related to the labor pain. pain is a strong stressor which can have great impacts on women’s reproductive, mental, and physical health; therefore, its harmful effects should be reduced. thus, the present study aimed to determine the relationship between the ...

There are few theoretical perspectives that address the dynamics of race-based mobility in the American workplace. The “particularistic mobility thesis” fills this gap: it maintains that even when groups work in similar jobs, discriminatorily induced dynamics associated with the relative inability of minorities to demonstrate informal characteristics—such as loyalty and sound judgment—constitut...

This article is devoted to analysis of researchers’ internal mobility in Russia related to their movement between academic institutes or universities and industry the so-called intersectoral mobility. Intersectoral mobility may acquire different forms: permanent, when a researcher moves from one organization to another for a full-time job, or temporary, as a part-time research work or consultin...