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Malaysia has been grappling with understanding how many foreign workers reside in the country and thus faces challenges in formulating evidence-based foreign worker policies. This paper uses micro-level remittance transaction data collected from money transfer service providers to estimate the...
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. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … local, regional, and foreign markets; (2) remittances and investment subsidies to promote job creation and labor … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate …
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Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …
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Ecuador became the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans who left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10 percent of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap by analyzing a new...
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Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. -- Migration ; Exertion of effort ; Contracted Temporary Migration …
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The seasonal worker program (SWP) was formally introduced in 2012 following a four-year pilot scheme. The program maintains the dual objectives of: (i) contributing to the economic development of nine participating Pacific Island countries and Timor-Leste; and (ii) filling labor shortages in the...
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The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) is a temporary migration scheme between Australia and selected Pacific Island … migration and explore how negative consequences can be mitigated; and (ii) examine the experience of women in the program …
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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …
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