[PDF] Migration And The Labor Market In Developing Countries eBook

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464812829

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Migration presents a stark policy dilemma. Research repeatedly confirms that migrants, their families back home, and the countries that welcome them experience large economic and social gains. Easing immigration restrictions is one of the most effective tools for ending poverty and sharing prosperity across the globe. Yet, we see widespread opposition in destination countries, where migrants are depicted as the primary cause of many of their economic problems, from high unemployment to declining social services. Moving for Prosperity: Global Migration and Labor Markets addresses this dilemma. In addition to providing comprehensive data and empirical analysis of migration patterns and their impact, the report argues for a series of policies that work with, rather than against, labor market forces. Policy makers should aim to ease short-run dislocations and adjustment costs so that the substantial long-term benefits are shared more evenly. Only then can we avoid draconian migration restrictions that will hurt everybody. Moving for Prosperity aims to inform and stimulate policy debate, facilitate further research, and identify prominent knowledge gaps. It demonstrates why existing income gaps, demographic differences, and rapidly declining transportation costs mean that global mobility will continue to be a key feature of our lives for generations to come. Its audience includes anyone interested in one of the most controversial policy debates of our time.

Author : Richard Sabot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 042970819X

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This book clarifies the linkages among income distribution, migration, surplus labor, and poverty in developing countries. It assesses the implications of different key characteristics of labor markets for the response of labor supply to the hiring of additional urban workers.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2018-01-24
Category :
ISBN : 9264288732

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How Immigrants Contribute to Developing Countries' Economies is the result of a project carried out by the OECD Development Centre and the International Labour Organization, with support from the European Union. The report covers the ten project partner countries.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category :
ISBN : 9264216502

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This publication gathers the papers presented at the “OECD-EU dialogue on mobility and international migration: matching economic migration with labour market needs” (Brussels, 24-25 February 2014), a conference jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD.

Author : Wim P. M. Vijverberg
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Labor productivity
ISBN :

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In a comparison of migrants with nonmigrants, both observed and unobservable productivity factors are relevant. This paper focuses more on the unobservable factors and their correlation between places of origin and destination. A human capital model of migration demonstrates that more productive workers at the origin would choose to migrate only if the correlation between origin and destination factors is strongly positive. Longitudinal data drawn from the Cote d'Ivoire Living Standards Survey, 1985-86, are used to examine the pattern of migration in the light of labor market performance both of wage employees and non-farm self-employed workers. It is found that, indeed, the more productive workers migrate. Furthermore, the general direction of migration is toward cities. The conclusion is therefore that rural areas lose their productive workers and that urban areas may gain in productivity from the geographical shifts in population.

Author : Michael D. Bordo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0226065995

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As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been made to present a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international integration. This volume collects eleven papers doing exactly that and more. The first group of essays explores how the process of globalization can be measured in terms of the long-term integration of different markets-from the markets for goods and commodities to those for labor and capital, and from the sixteenth century to the present. The second set of contributions places this knowledge in a wider context, examining some of the trends and questions that have emerged as markets converge and diverge: the roles of technology and geography are both considered, along with the controversial issues of globalization's effects on inequality and social justice and the roles of political institutions in responding to them. The final group of essays addresses the international financial systems that play such a large part in guiding the process of globalization, considering the influence of exchange rate regimes, financial development, financial crises, and the architecture of the international financial system itself. This volume reveals a much larger picture of the process of globalization, one that stretches from the establishment of a global economic system during the nineteenth century through the disruptions of two world wars and the Great Depression into the present day. The keen analysis, insight, and wisdom in this volume will have something to offer a wide range of readers interested in this important issue.

Author : Robert E. B. Lucas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781959169

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"This accessible and topical book offers insights to policy makers in both industrialized and developing countries as well as to scholars and researchers of economics, development, international relations and to specialists in migration."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309337852

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The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion of the workforce than they do in countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, these immigrants have an important role in spurring innovation and economic growth in all countries and filling shortages in the domestic labor supply. This report summarizes the proceedings of a Fall 2014 workshop that focused on how immigration policy can be used to attract and retain foreign talent. Participants compared policies on encouraging migration and retention of skilled workers, attracting qualified foreign students and retaining them post-graduation, and input by states or provinces in immigration policies to add flexibility in countries with regional employment differences, among other topics. They also discussed how immigration policies have changed over time in response to undesired labor market outcomes and whether there was sufficient data to measure those outcomes.

Author : Edmundo Murrugarra
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2010-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821384376

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This volume uses recent research from the World Bank to document and analyze the bidirectional relationship between poverty and migration in developing countries. The case studies chapters compiled in this book (from Tanzania, Nepal, Albania and Nicaragua), as well as the last, policy-oriented chapter illustrate the diversity of migration experience and tackle the complicated nexus between migration and poverty reduction. Two main messages emerge: Although evidence indicates that migration reduces poverty, it also shows that migration opportunities of the poor differ from that of the rest. In general, the evidence suggests that the poor either migrate less or migrate to low return destinations. As a consequence, many developing countries are not maximizing the poverty-reducing potential of migration. The main reason behind this outcome is difficulties in access to remunerative migration opportunities and the high costs associated with migrating. It is shown, for example, that reducing migration costs makes migration more pro-poor. The volume shows that developing countries governments are not without means to improve this situation. Several of the country examples offer a few policy recommendations towards this end.

Author : Dipak Mazumdar
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821311837

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This paper deals with labor market structures in developing countries and the impact of government policies on rural and urban labor markets. The central concern in analyses of employment is absorption of labor. Governments try to influence the demand for labor so that more members of the labor force are absorbed into productive employment. Employment outcomes are often the by-products of government policies that affect economic growth as a whole. This paper concentrates on factors that influence the structure and functioning of labor markets. In Chapter 1, a schematic picture of labor markets is presented. Chapters 2 and 3 analyze the salient features of the workings of rural and urban labor markets and discuss some important government policies that affect the functioning of these markets. The paper concludes that Government intervention in both rural and urban labor markets has often been less than successful, sometimes because their policies were based on incorrect assumptions. At other times, these policies have achieved less because the government also adopted other policies that tended to contradict the goal of providing jobs.