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715710
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George Naufal
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Expats and the labor force : : the story of the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.\ George Naufal
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Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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Economics of the Middle East.
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(198 s.) : 13 black and white, line drawings, 9.
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1137117850
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: 9781137117854
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George Naufal is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the School of Business and Management at The American University of Sharjah. His primary research interests include labor economics, with an emphasis on migration and remittances. His secondary research interests include macroeconomics and monetary theory. His research has focused mainly on the Middle East and North Africa with an emphasis on the Gulf countries. He is author or co-author of several published articles. Beside his academic involvement, he is a consultant on remittances issues. Dr. Naufal and his family reside in Sharjah, UAE. Ismail H. Genc received his PhD in economics from the Texas A & M University with a specialization in "applied monetary and macroeconomics" as well as "applied time series analysis." He taught in Economics and Statistics departments at the University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA, where he was a tenured associate professor. He is currently at the Economics Department in the American University of Sharjah. His work was recognized with grants and contracts as well as several research, teaching and service awards/honors. He also served as former Vice-President of the Southwestern Economics Association (USA), currently sits in various editorial boards, and provides testimonies offered to policy making bodies. He provided expert testimony to governmental bodies on forecast related matters, and conducted executive training and delivered public speeches on his specialties.;Electronic book text.;Epublication based on: 9780230337329, 2012.;Chapter 1: Why Move to the Gulf? * Chapter 2: History of Labour Migration to the Gulf * Chapter 3: Foreign Workers and the Labour Force * Chapter 4: Remittance Outflows * Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Effects of Remittance Outflows * Chapter 6: Official versus Unofficial Remittances in the GCC * Chapter 7: Information Crisis in the Gulf.
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Chapter 1: Why Move to the Gulf? * Chapter 2: History of Labour Migration to the Gulf * Chapter 3: Foreign Workers and the Labour Force * Chapter 4: Remittance Outflows * Chapter 5: Macroeconomic Effects of Remittance Outflows * Chapter 6: Official versus Unofficial Remittances in the GCC * Chapter 7: Information Crisis in the Gulf
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Expats and the Labor Force examines the flows of people and money in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. This timely book outlines the reasons that made the Gulf region a destination for millions of migrants. Taking advantage of the discovery of large hydrocarbon reserves and relatively stable political environment, the GCC countries filled the large demand for labor with foreign workers. However the number, share, and source of expatriates have presented serious challenges for the region. Naufal and Genc discuss these consequences on the composition of the labor force and remittance outflows.
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Foreign workers -- Persian Gulf Region.
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Gulf Cooperation Council.
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Migrant labor -- Persian Gulf Region.
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George Naufal
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Ismail Genc
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