' economic shocks. Overseas Filipinos work in dozens of foreign countries, which experienced sudden (and heterogeneous) changes …-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to enhanced human …

satisfaction with the employer, and be more likely to stay with the employer. DWs' families in the Philippines also come to view … international labor migration more positively, while they generally remain unaware of the intervention. An online experiment with …

United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …

Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for … regions in Asia and the selected other regions and aggregates are constructed to reinforce the importance of recognizing …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern …

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how … points. However, some migrants appear motivated by target-earnings considerations: in households with intermediate foreign … earnings, favorable exchange rate shocks have the least effect on return migration, but lead to increases in household …

using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …

experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. Our most intensive … treatment doubled the rate of job offers but had no identifiable effect on international labor migration. Even the highest … conclude that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of additional emigration …

Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to exchange rate shocks. The initial shock to migrant income is magnified … population education; better-educated migrants; and increased migration in high-skilled jobs. Four-fifths of long-run income … origin areas. Increased income from international labor migration not only benefits migrants themselves, but also fosters …