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Why Do Migrants Return to Poor Countries? Evidence from Philippine Migrants%U2019 Responses to Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2006

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how Philippine migrants%u2019 return decisions respond to major, unexpected exchange rate changes in their overseas locations (due to the Asian financial crisis). Overall, the evidence...

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Negotiated Citizenship Through Civic Association : Contestations of Collective Empowerment Among Filipino Irregular Migrants in Japan

Villa, Anderson - 2017

This case study focuses on addressing the question, “How do non-state actors address the predicament of the irregular migrants' precarious status?” The study reveals that an unwanted irregular migrant will certainly seek recognition, not necessarily from mainstream society but from peers,...

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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks

Yang, Dean - 2010

Millions of households in developing countries receive financial support from family members working overseas. How do migrant earnings affect origin-household investments? This paper examines Philippine households%u2019 responses to overseas members%u2019 economic shocks. Overseas Filipinos work...

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Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines

Beam, Emily - 2017

experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. The most intensive …

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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

understood. This study investigates a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of …

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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 J. - 2017

The authors use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of …

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An Empirical Analysis of International Labour Migration in the Philippines

Agbola, Frank W. - 2017

emigration from the Philippines. In 2007, overseas workers from the Philippines sent remittances in excess of US$14 billion … important role in economic development, the determinants of emigration in the Philippines are not well established. A simple … Philippines. The result also indicates that government instability impacts negatively on emigration in the Philippines. The policy …

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Path Dependence, Increasing Returns, and Philippine Labor Migration Policy

Brillo, Bing Baltazar C. - 2016

Beginning as a temporary economic solution of the Marcos regime, the labor migration policy has persisted over the years through subsequent regimes — that of Aquino, of Ramos, and of Arroyo. For its persistence, the usual reason of poor economy has been the overly cited culprit. The study...

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The Employability Skills of the Overseas Filipino Workers

Torres, Beulah Rose - 2019

A university tracks its graduates to determine if its curriculum has prepared students for the job market. The purpose of this study was to ascertain the self perceived employability skills of sociology and economics graduates of Bukidnon State University, who are working overseas. The OFWs were...

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Explaining the Actions and Positions of the Sri Lankan and Philippine States in Defense of 'Their' Female Migrant Domestic Workers

Ireland, Patrick - 2014

that have been mentioned as possible causes include the Philippines' longer emigration history, the larger share of … domestic workers (FMDWs) from the Philippines have labored in European countries with stronger migrant labor laws; more Sri …

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