The paper looks at the remittance behavior of these two groups of migrants, the OFWs and the permanent emigrants. It applies received theory on remittance behavior on cross-section data from the 2004 special survey on remittances sponsored by the Asian Development Bank.

The paper is an exploratory study of labor market adjustment to the outflow of construction workers. It argues that the ease with which the market adjust to out-migration or to any change in demand of any skill depends on the cost of acquiring training for and the relative abundance of inherent...