1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971412003321

Titolo

International and interarea comparisons of income, output, and prices / / edited by Alan Heston and Robert E. Lipsey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Ill., : University of Chicago Press, 1999

ISBN

9786611223595

9781281223593

128122359X

9780226331126

0226331121

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (546 p.)

Collana

Studies in income and wealth ; ; v. 61

Altri autori (Persone)

HestonAlan W

LipseyRobert E

Disciplina

330 s

339.3

Soggetti

National income

Prices

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Rev. papers from the CRIW Conference on International and Interarea Comparisons of Prices, Income, and Output held in Arlington, Va., Mar. 15-16, 1996.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Theoretical bases of multilateral interspatial comparisons -- 2. Interarea price and wage comparisons -- 3. Informal reports on methods and the geographic expansion of the international comparison program -- 4. Reports from the international comparisons of output and productivity program -- 5. Applications of international comparison data.

Sommario/riassunto

Economists wish to compare prices, real income, and output across countries and regions for many purposes. In the past, such comparisons were made in nominal terms, or by using exchange rates across countries, ignoring differences in price levels and thus distorting the results. Great progress has been made in interspatial comparisons in the past thirty years, but descriptions and discussions of the new measures have been scattered in unpublished or inaccessible papers. International and Interarea Comparisons of Income, Output, and Prices



includes discussions of developments in the United Nations International Comparison Program, the largest effort in this field, and in the ICOP program on the production side, including efforts in both to extend the comparisons to the formerly planned economies. Other papers in this volume explore new programs on interspatial comparisons within the United States. There are also theoretical papers on how interspatial comparisons should be made and several examples of uses of such comparisons.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046573103321

Autore

Marson James

Titolo

The lived experiences of African international students in the UK : precarity, consciousness and the law / / James Marson, Mohammed Dirisu, Katy Ferris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2022

ISBN

9781839982132

1839982136

9781839982125

1839982128

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

378.1982960941

Soggetti

African students - Great Britain

Africans - Education (Higher)

Students, Foreign - Employment - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Students, Foreign - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Sep 2022).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-219) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The Lived Experiences of African International Students in the UK: Precarity, Consciousness and the Law

Sommario/riassunto

International student migration makes a significant contribution to higher education in the United Kingdom, with Southern Africa, and Nigeria in particular, positioned joint sixth in the top ten of sending countries. Many of these student-migrants, in supplementing their



finances to fund their studies in the United Kingdom, undertake employment. Temporary and/or part-time employment is integral to the student-migrant experience, despite the express purpose of their admission into the United Kingdom designated for study purposes and not work. This explicit object is reflected in restrictions affixed to international students' employment rights whilst studying; they are generally restricted to a maximum of twenty hours of work per week during term time and proscribed from working full time or as independent contractors. Given the scant regard this topic has received in the existing literature, this study offers an examination of students' lived employment experiences under these rules. The study aims to offer a contribution, first in respect of the employment experiences of student-migrants through the analytical framework of 'precarity' by examining the various manifestations of insecurity in the students' lived realities, nuanced by structures of migration control and labour market temporalities. Secondly, by adopting the socio-legal schema of legal consciousness, the study considers the student-migrants' relationship with the law by way of the legal restrictions on their employment and examines their agency as evidenced through efforts to derogate from these rules.