Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks

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Selection, selection, selection: the impact of return migration

“…The median duration of migration is 5 years for both educated and uneducated workers. McKenzie et al (2014), studying Filipino emigration where a significant number of migrants go to the Gulf States, find that changes in destination country GDP have a large impact on changes in Filipino migrant flows, but, no impact on migrant wages or migration duration. The second potential concern would be that the oil price may be correlated with the labor force participation or the occupational choice (waged/entrepreneurship).…”

Internal Labor Migration as a Shock Coping Strategy: Evidence from a Typhoon

“…For an overview, see McKenzie and Yang (n.d.). A related literature also investigates similar effects for changes in migrant destination conditions (Yang 2006, 2008b, McKenzie et al 2014.…”

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“…McKenzie and Rapoport (2011) nd that temporary labor migration from Mexico to the United States reduces human capital investment by Mexican youths, investment that in the long run might have tended to create more job opportunities in Mexico. In the present setting, the opportunity to migrate for high wages in the Gulf might reduce the incentives to invest in business formation within India, which in turn might tend to limit job opportunities in India, a self-reinforcing low-level equilibrium.…”