Managed Labor Migration in Afghanistan : A Brief Review of the Academic Migration Literature
This paper presents key findings on the international experience with migration, focusing on the implications for a developing nation that is a country of origin. The paper identifies several areas of impacts: (1) increases in wages of individual m...
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/970401516915210649/Managed-labor-migration-in-Afghanistan-a-brief-review-of-the-academic-migration-literature http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29274 |
| Summary: | This paper presents key findings on the
international experience with migration, focusing on the
implications for a developing nation that is a country of
origin. The paper identifies several areas of impacts: (1)
increases in wages of individual migrants; (2) remittances;
(3) impacts on skills and skill formation – those leaving
acquire skills to enhance ability to migrate, and those
returning often do so with acquired skills and work
experience. Additional impacts also arise on the
macroeconomy and on growth of the economy through channels
like the use of remittances as collateral, and trade
identification and facilitation through migrants. The paper
explores the different migration regimes along the spectrum
of two polar cases of purely managed and purely unmanaged
migration, and focuses on two possible aspects of managed
migration: (1) migrants’ social networks, which amplify and
propagate the initial actions on migration by the managed
systems; and (2) skills and certification systems typically
associated with managed systems. |
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