Yingru Ouyang Econ 324 Prof. Lopez Dec.10. 2016 Female Asian Immigrants’ in the U.S. Labor Market Introduction After 1980, the number of immigrants increase dramatically. In 1980, the size of immigrants are 14.1 millions which takes 6.2% of US population. In 2015, the U.S. immigrant population is more than 42.4 million, or 13.3 percent, of the total U.S. population. Simultaneously, the migration from Asia to the United States rose from 5% share of population in 1960 to 30% in 2014. This is…
Ever since the invention of modern medicine, providers have tried to find a system in which people receive fair medical services such as healthcare in order to keep peoples overall well-being intact. Now, with this being said, almost every democratic and developed country in the world provides some kind of universal healthcare society. According to Merriam Webster, healthcare is “… the maintaining and restoration of health by the treatment and prevention of disease especially by trained and…
both being mixed economies. The differences of these two nations are quite large, with great variations in Gross Domestic Products and Human Development Indices. Economic Growth Rate is a quantitative measure of an economy’s increase in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over time. Bangladesh’s real GDP growth rate was 5.8% in 2013, much higher than Australia’s growth rate of 2.5% in 2013. Gross Domestic Product Purchasing Power Parity (GDP PPP) measures the sum value of all the goods and services…
account for more than two-thirds of Gross Domestic Product (Raquiza, 2013). Thailand currently has a gross domestic product that is worth 8.5 trillion Bart based on the basis of the purchasing power parity (Raquiza, 2013). This has led to its classification as the second largest in Southeast Asia after Indonesia. Despite this ranking, Thailand is still midway in the spread of its wealth since it is classified as the fourth richest nation on the basis of gross domestic product per capita after…
Sky-high cost of living - Adjust the linked exchange rate system in Hong Kong The Consumer Price Index of Hong Kong raises over four times since 1980`s(MTR,2014), which means the cost of living in Hong Kong went up with an exaggerated speed. Cost of living is a general term for the price of goods and services required for maintaining an average level standard of living(Business dictionary,2017). Although high cost of living might be common in the world, the situation of Hong Kong differ from…
known as Helsinki is one of the fastest growing economies and one of the richest capitals in Europe. Helsinki being one of the richest city in Europe, contributes one third of Finland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Researches show that Helsinki’s GDP per capita is roughly 1.3 times the national average. Finland’s Gross National Product on the other hand, increased to 46671 EUR Million in the second quarter of 2015 from 46625 EUR Million in the first quarter of 2015. The city of Helsinki has a…
Globalization make economic change from poor to richer. It is show obviously at the end of 20th century that Japanese per capita incomes are about as high as Western incomes and seven times as high as Chinese incomes. What make Japan growth so fast ? Revolution of Japan’s is faster than China which government still rule by impartial and the China revolution still slow. Japan revolution in human and social capital while china still struggle with the both issue. In addition, nationalism of Japan…
With the rapid economic development, the total number of vehicles and hand phone users can be described as climbing steadily. According to the international telecommunication union (ITU: International Telecommunication Union) statistics at the end of 2008, the number of china’s hand phone users has exceeded 600 million, which was about 90% of population aged 18 years or above. The total number of hand phone users of China was ranked as the first in the world. The human brain does not have the…
Gross National Product (GNP) and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) are the indicator that studied the strength and weakness of an economy. There is many differences between them. The principle distinction in the middle of GDP and GNP is that GDP refers to the business sector estimation of merchandise or administrations delivered in a nation barring remote generation in a given period of time, typically a year. GDP: Gross domestic product or just GDP implies the business sector estimation of the…
Brazil, being the fifth-largest country in the world, has a population of approximately 200 million people which has increasingly become urbanised since the 1950s, with 85% of the current population living in urban areas. However, like many other countries, in the course of this urban development and economic growth, may have neglected measures of sustainability for the present and future. The current national focus and priority of the country is on economic stabilization policies even though…