The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Fourth Economic Development Plan, 1985-1990, proposed to replace foreign workers with Saudis. This study describes the population and labor force in Riyadh in 1986, estimates the wage differences by nationality after controlling for other variables,…
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This study is a descriptive analysis of the changing role of oil in Nigeria and its impact on Nigerian social and economic development policies and progress from 1958 through the early 1980's. The key independent variable is the percentage of total annual national revenues deriv…
This research analyses differentials between Morocco's largest city, Casablanca, and its other urban areas. Specifically, the differentials that are analyzed are the population labor force participation and the industrial and occupational structure of the employed population. Wi…
My study attempts to provide a picture of the relationship between choices about childbearing in Saudi Arabia, the position of certain women in the social structure of Saudi Arabian society, and their family formation attitudes. The assumption of the study was that a woman's soc…
This dissertation analyzes the results of a quantitative ethnographic study of parental and offspring behavior among the Karo Batak. The goals of this project were to bring behavioral ecology theory to bear on demographic, economic, and behavioral data, and to assess the power o…
Ethnic integration is embedded in a structural context that shapes group relations and the degree of ethnic relevance. The thesis that immigrant outcomes are destination dependent has been gaining theoretical and empirical ground in the literature and argues for studying ethnic …
In recent decades, increased attention has been given to unmet need for family planning in developing countries. Previous research tends to ignore men's unmet need as related to existing power relations at the household level, communication between spouses, age gap between spous…
The objective of this study is to examine parental motivation (investment versus consumption) for gender differentials in human capital investment using the panel data from the first and second Malaysian Family Surveys fielded in 1976–77 and 1988–89. During this period Malaysia'…
The thesis consists of two essays. In these essays, I try to address two of the most challenging development issues in Ethiopia, poverty and malnutrition. The foci of the two essays are interrelated but will be examined separately. The title of the first essay is “The Role of Ma…
In this thesis, I examine associations between measures of intimate partner violence and sexual behaviors, particularly behaviors that increase the risk of infection with HIV or another sexually transmitted infection (STI), including failing to use condoms, having multiple sexua…
Among the many policy solutions debated from the onset of the war in Bosnia in 1992, internationally supervised exchange of minority populations, usually as part of a territorial partition, was a prominent alternative to the peace settlement ultimately reached in 1995. While thi…
This study answers a certain number of questions about the association of birth intervals and the mortality of children in Algeria where the level of infant mortality remains high, and where more than 30% of birth intervals are lower than 24 months. The interval between births o…
This dissertation aims to contribute to a better understanding of the changing relations between government and general populace in Ottoman Istanbul during the late eighteenth century. The wide-spread treatment of the eighteenth century as one of decentralization, decline and ap…
This study investigated the childbearing patterns of immigrant Nigerian women to understand how they negotiate their reproductive rights. Using unstructured interviews, the study focused on nineteen Igbo Nigerian women. The participants were interviewed individually and in addit…
This research aimed to assess the effects of economic status (ES), ideation and social interaction regarding family planning on fertility levels, fertility change, and women's fertility intentions in Ghana, Kenya and Senegal. Specifically, it aimed to determine (a) the relative …
A review of recent research data reflects a lack of general interest in world literature on the emigration of highly educated individuals from less developed countries to developed countries. The bulk of the information on this immigration pattern, which has become known as brai…
The primary purpose of this research is to explore the adjustment experience of the first generation Iranian immigrants to the United States. Data sources include interviews with Iranian immigrants and structured questionnaires that were sent out to Iranian decision-makers of di…
Primate cities emerge, grow, and become dominant in the urban system as a result of a complex set of internal and external forces operating at different macro and micro levels. The strength of primacy, as indicated by the degree of population concentration in one or a few urban …