Global Labour in Distress, Volume I

1. International migration.- 2. Immigration and prices.- 3. Transnational Communities and Regional Upgrading in India and China.- 4. International Competition Intensified.- 5. Effects of Remittance Behavior on the Lives of Recent Immigrants to Canada from the Philippines.- 6. Gender pay gaps in domestic and foreign-owned firms.- 7. The impact of differences in the levels of technology on international labor migration.- 8. Are Workers in the Developing World Winners or Losers in the Current Era of Globalization?.- 9. Employment effect of innovation.- 10. Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change and Employment in Vietnam.- 11. The Evolution of Skill-Biased Effects on American Wages in the 1980s and 1990s.- 12. The Developmental Potential of Frugal Innovation among Mobile Money Agents in Kitwe, Zambia.- 13 Helping a Large Number of People Become a Little Less Poor.- 14. A vulnerability approach to the definition of the middle class.- 15. Wages, employment and economic shocks.- 16. Growth and Recession.- 17. The Effect of Grandparental Support on Mothers’ Labour Market Participation.- 18. Structure and agency in development-induced forced migration.- 19. Disaster disparities and differential recovery in New Orleans.<p></p>