The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply … decisions with a classical labor demand function at destination. Our setup allows us to estimate a general upper bound on the … elasticity of the migrant labor supply that we take to the data using the evolution of the numbers and wages of temporary …

Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with …

shocks at destination, but no significant wage response. This is consistent with binding minimum wages for migrant labor …. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international migration attractive also make migrant flows …

This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force … merged 2003 data sets from the nationally representative Labor Force Survey, the Family Income and Expenditures Survey and … the Survey of Overseas Filipinos. Employing alternative empirical specifications of the labor supply function, the study …

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in … affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with …