The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: first, to investigate determinants of international labor migration to West Germany from a group of twelve countries classified in this study as high income and low income countries; second, to analyze the impact of workers' remittances on the consumption level of two labor sending countries. / For the first objective, this study utilizes the cost-benefit or the push-pull approach to labor migration. The main statistical tools which are used are the cross-sectional heteraskedastic and time wise-autoregressive model (CHTAM) and the multiple regression model. This study demonstrates that economic factors are responsible for flow of international labor migration to West Germany. It has been found that income level is more important as a determinant than industrial output in influencing the flow of labor migration from high income countries group, whereas for low income countries it has been found that industrial output is more important as a determinant than income level in influencing the flow of labor migration from this group of countries. It has also been found that immigration policy as a variable is more effective in reducing the inflow of labor migration to West Germany from low income countries than it is from high income countries. / For the second objective, an extended version of the Keynesian consumption function has been specified to test for the impact of workers' remittances on the consumption level of Morocco and Turkey, both of which are labor sending countries. This study demonstrated that workers' remittances have a positive relationship with the level of consumption and that in countries where the economies are under-developed, remittances may have a long-term development effect. This study concludes with some policy implications and with a few suggestions for future research. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-12, Section: A, page: 3170. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76193 |
| Contributors | YASIN, JEHAD AHMAD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 172 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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