Unilateral Facilitation Does Not Raise International Labor Migration from the Philippines
Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. The authors conducted a large-scale randomized exper...
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| Format: | Policy Research Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18479589/unilateral-facilitation-not-raise-international-labor-migration-philippines http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16925 |
| Summary: | Significant income gains from migrating
from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral
(source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration.
However, their effectiveness is unknown. The authors
conducted a large-scale randomized 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
overseas job-search rate that was induced (22 percent) falls
far short of the share initially expressing interest in
migrating (34 percent). The paper concludes that unilateral
migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a
flood, of additional emigration. |
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