<p> The issue of preserving Quebec's French culture has become paramount to those who fear its future existence. Maintaining a large proportion of the Canadian population is necessary in order for cultural preservation. However, Quebec is losing its share of the national population, despite the introduction of various policies to increase that proportion. </p> <p> The purpose of this research is to study the effects of migration selectivity, that is, the differences in migration behaviour with respect to personal attributes, on Quebec's population. The personal attributes considered are birth place, education level, marital status, mother tongue and gender. For each personal attribute, the net migration rate is determined for 10 different age groups. The net flow of people across the Quebec border will then be revealed. The characterization of the people who are migrating in and out of Quebec will be established and finally the ultimate effect the migration process has on the Quebec population will be discussed. </p> / Thesis / Candidate in Philosophy

<p> The effects of migration selectivity on the population of the Atlantic region are determined by creating six net migration schedules for six personal variables: age, sex, nativity, education status, mother tongue and marital status. Although the migration schedules were rather complex, selectivity was greatest for young adults and the well educated. The population of the Atlantic region is selective with respect to age and education status. The Atlantic region is losing its young and well educated individuals through the migration process. Furthermore, the Atlantic region had a net inflow of elderly individuals. The effect of the migration selectivity is the loss of young adults, which is interpreted as an important loss of human capital compounding the economic problems of the region. While the increase in elderly population will economically burden the local social and health systems. Using the argument that the migration process is severely hurting the region economically, the Atlantic governments can argue for larger equalization payments to the region.</p> / Thesis / Candidate in Philosophy

This work explains the prevailing trends of internal migration in the Czech Republic, which have a major impact on the population and the overall development of individual regions. In the analysis of some key phenomena of internal migration, there have been formulated and tested four hypotheses, which were supplemented by more detailed analysis of population data. The results of hypothesis testing indicate that in the Czech Republic: (1) dominated internal migration from rural to urban than in the opposite direction, which means that they are manifested desurbanization processes; (2) total internal migration before 1989 was different than after this year; (3) are not all regions equally attractive to migrants; (4) internal migration does not meet certain defined conditions of the selectivity of migration.

My dissertation offers three empirical studies of the outcomes following public policy changes designed to reduce the impact of discrimination. The first two chapters focus on the migration of black South Africans soon after the notorious apartheid policies of the South African government were eliminated in the early 1990s. The last chapter of my thesis touches another anti-discrimination policy, the American with Disabilities Act of 1990.Chapter 1 investigates the impact of internal migration on the human capital redistribution within South Africa. As apartheid was being dismantled, new opportunities for movement opened up to black workers, leading to a surge in internal migration. The empirical analysis shows that individuals prefer localities with higher expected log wages regardless of their educations and skills. Second, over the study period, brain drain arose among blacks within South Africa: the share of people with high school education rose in areas that had originally had more people with high school educations.Chapter 2 studies the impact of family migration on women's employment status in South Africa as apartheid was being dismantled. Black women in migrating households with both spouses were more likely to be unemployed than in nonmigrant households. Moreover, the initial negative relationship between migration and employment in a new area for white spouses of migrants was eliminated within 2 years, while black spouses of migrants experienced higher levels of unemployment relative to nonmigrants over a more extended period.Chapter 3 examines the changes in the Oaxaca decomposition measures of labor market discrimination for individuals with disabilities before and after the passage of the ADA. The results indicate that the employment and wage gaps between the disabled and the non-disabled have risen sharply over time, both before and after the passage of the ADA. Most of the rise prior to the ADA was attributable to a rise in differences that cannot be explained with measurable factors. Nearly all of the rises in the gaps after the introduction of the ADA, however, are attributable to factors that can be measured. The unexplained differential has held relatively constant during that period.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:10:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AnaRMD_DISSERT.pdf: 938576 bytes, checksum: f835d4ce17ba788f9863a39ccb5543af (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-25 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The aim of this study is to analyze the effect of migration on the income differential between northeastern migrants and nonmigrants and there by verify that the immigrants make up a group or not positively selected. The assumption that will be tested is that the presence of these immigrants affects income inequality in the region receptor, which may explain part of the high-stopping inequality in the Brazilian Northeast. The study is based on the literature selectivity migration introduced by Roy (1951), Borjas (1987) and Chiswick (1999). Does the estimated wage equation Mincer (1974) through the method of OLS, using information from the microdata sample of the 2010 Census, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). The results which correspond to the comparison of socioeconomic profile, showed that immigrants are more qualified and, on average, better paid than non-migrants. With the estimation of the model, it was found that, keeping all other variables constant, the income that immigrants earn is 14.43% higher than that of non-migrants. Thus, there was existence of positive selectivity in migration directed to the Northeast / O objetivo desse estudo ? analisar o efeito da migra??o sobre o diferencial de renda entre os imigrantes e n?o-migrantes nordestinos e, com isso, verificar se os imigrantes comp?em ou n?o um grupo positivamente selecionado. O pressuposto que ser? testado ? o de que a presen?a desses imigrantes afeta a desigualdade de renda da regi?o receptora, o que pode explicar parte da elevada desigualdade deparada no Nordeste brasileiro. O estudo est? baseado na literatura de seletividade migrat?ria introduzida por Roy (1951), Borjas (1987) e Chiswick (1999). Ser? estimada a equa??o de sal?rios de Mincer (1974) por meio do M?todo de M?nimos Quadrados Ordin?rios, utilizando as informa??es dos microdados da amostra do Censo de 2010, do Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estat?stica (IBGE). Os resultados que correspondem ? compara??o do perfil socioecon?mico, mostraram que os imigrantes s?o mais qualificados e, em m?dia, mais bem pagos que os n?o-migrantes. Com a estima??o do modelo, verificou-se que, mantendo as demais vari?veis constantes, a renda que os imigrantes auferem ? 14,43% maior que a dos n?o-migrantes. Dessa forma, constatou-se exist?ncia de seletividade positiva nas migra??es dirigidas ? regi?o Nordeste