The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States

by Ramona Hernandez

Book Overview

What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from less developed regions migrate to more advanced countries where technological and productive transformations have produced a shortage of laborers. Using...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231116225
• ISBN13: 9780231116220
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher