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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David - 2012
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of … migration attractive also make migrant flows more sensitive to global business cycles. Difference-in-differences analysis of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395327
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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Beam, Emily - 2013
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 … (34 percent). The paper concludes that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396038
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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Beam, Emily - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457907
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - 2012
The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of … migration attractive also make migrant flows more sensitive to global business cycles. Difference-in-differences analysis of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552146
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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Beam, Emily; McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - 2014
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 … (34 percent). The paper concludes that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560797
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Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market : Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
McKenzie, David; Theoharides, Caroline; Yang, Dean - 2014
We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant …. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international migration attractive also make migrant flows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564176
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The Results of a Pilot Financial Literacy and Business Planning Training Program for Women in Uganda
McKenzie, David; Weber, Michaela - 2012
The eighth in impact series summarizes the results of an evaluation that didn't go as planned. Nevertheless, the author believe there are lessons to be had from this experience for Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) finance and private sector work in other countries, and that it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012555329
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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-Field Experiment and New Product Take-up among Filipino Migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2014
to pay remittances directly to schools in the Philippines. This take-up seems largely driven by a response to the ability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396177
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
McKenzie, David - 2021
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521824
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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments : Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe - 2015
to directly pay remittances to schools in the Philippines. We find this take-up is largely driven by a response to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457827