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Institutions Serving Philippine International Labor Migrants

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Cabalfin, Michael R.; Abrigo, … - 2009

Filipino international migrant workers. Thirty years of having explicit policy on international labor migration has resulted to …

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The Social and Economic Impact of Philippine International Labor Migration and Remittances

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Zosa, Victorina - 2009

and implications of the social and economic impacts of international labor migration and remittances were assessed and … impact of international labor migration and remittances is complex and an interdisciplinary research is needed to …The purpose of the paper was to summarize studies identifying the causes and effects of Philippine international labor …

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Alternative Measures of Offshorability: A Survey Approach

Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2009

This paper reports on a pilot study of the use of conventional household survey methods to measure something unconventional: what we call offshorability, defined as the ability to perform one’s work duties (for the same employer and customers) from abroad. Notice that offshorability is a...

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Institutions Serving Philippine International Labor Migrants

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Cabalfin, Michael R.; Abrigo, … - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2009

Filipino international migrant workers. Thirty years of having explicit policy on international labor migration has resulted to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008556985

The Social and Economic Impact of Philippine International Labor Migration and Remittances

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Zosa, Victorina - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2009

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Philippine International Labor Migration in the Past 30 Years: Trends and Prospects

Orbeta, Aniceto Jr. C.; Abrigo, Michael Ralph M. - Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), … - 2009

The paper characterizes how international labor migration became an enduring feature in the country’s development. It … study then presented the likely prospects of the Philippine international labor migration market considering domestic and …

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Alternative Measures of Offshorability: A Survey Approach

Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Department … - 2009

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Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome

Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

: rural labor training, labor migration, labor market policy, poverty alleviation, sunshine program Corresponding author … of rural-urban labor migration since the reform in the 1980’s. These rural-urban immigrant flows have been once labeled …

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Guiding the Invisible Hand: Making Migration Intermediaries Work for Development

Agunias, Dovelyn - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

Intermediaries are key actors that facilitate, and sometimes drive, migration within and across borders. By providing information and extending critical services in many stages of migration and in places of origin, transit and destination, legitimate intermediaries build migrants’ capabilities...

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Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Trends, factors, impacts

Martin, Philip - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of international migration in the Asia-Pacific region and reviews internal migration in China. After putting Asia-Pacific migration in a global context, it reviews trends in migration and the impacts of migrants in the major migrantreceiving...

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