Impacts of Temporary Migration on Development in Origin Countries
Temporary migration is widespread globally. While the literature has traditionally focused on the impacts of permanent migration on destination countries, evidence on the effects of temporary migration on origin countries has grown over the past de...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099518004052220771/IDU03fdc927a029b504f2c0af2a00e792fdd7b36 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37291 |
| Summary: | Temporary migration is widespread
globally. While the literature has traditionally focused on
the impacts of permanent migration on destination countries,
evidence on the effects of temporary migration on origin
countries has grown over the past decade. This paper
highlights that the economic development impacts, especially
on low- and middle-income origin countries are complex,
dynamic, context-specific and multi-channeled. The paper
identifies five main pathways: (i) labor supply, (ii) human
capital, (iii) financial capital and entrepreneurship, (iv)
aggregate welfare and poverty, and (v) institutions and
social norms. Several factors shape these pathways and their
eventual impacts. These include initial economic conditions
at home, the scale and double selectivity of emigration and
return migration, and employment and human capital
accumulation opportunities experienced by migrants while
they are overseas, among others. Meaningful policy
interventions to increase the development impacts of
temporary migration require proper analysis, which, in turn,
depends on high quality data on workers’ employment
trajectories. This is currently the biggest research
challenge to overcome to study the development impacts of
temporary migration. |
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