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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
- Source :
- Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- University of Chicago Press, 2016.
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Abstract
- Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. The authors conducted a large-scale randomized experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. The most intensive treatment doubled the rate of job offers but had no identifiable effect on international labor migration. Even the highest overseas job-search rate that was induced (22 percent) falls far short of the share initially expressing interest in migrating (34 percent). The paper concludes that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of additional emigration.
- Subjects :
- jel:C93
Economics and Econometrics
education.field_of_study
Human migration
business.industry
Internal migration
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Labor demand
Immigration
Population
International migration, passport costs, barriers to migration, unilateral migration policy, imperfect information, job-matching, field experiment, Philippines
Development
Human capital
jel:F22
Emigration
Population Policies,Labor Markets,Labor Policies,Access to Finance,Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement
Unemployment
Economics
Demographic economics
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business
education
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15392988 and 00130079
- Volume :
- 64
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Economic Development and Cultural Change
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9726b7ee12e89866bc49e6445a1243ac