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    Push and Pull : A Study of International Migration from Nepal (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (40 p)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrestha, Maheshwor Push and Pull: A Study of International Migration from Nepal
    Abstract: This paper studies migration choices in the presence of liquidity constraints and varying costs of migration. This paper presents a simple theoretical framework that analyzes migration response to both push and pull factors in such settings. This framework implies that a shock to the push factors in the origin leads to differential observed response to migration to various destinations, as the shocks affect different parts of the wealth distribution. The implications of this framework are tested in the context of international migration from Nepal, using a panel of 452 villages observed at three periods in the 2000s. The analysis uses rainfall shocks and deaths due to conflict as "push" shocks and growth in manufacturing and construction in destination countries as "pull" shocks. The findings show that a rainfall shock that increases household income by US
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7965
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    Death Scares : How Potential Work-Migrants Infer Mortality Rates from Migrant Deaths (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (35 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrestha, Maheshwor Death Scares: How Potential Work-Migrants Infer Mortality Rates from Migrant Deaths
    Abstract: This paper studies how potential work migrants infer mortality rates from incidents of migrant deaths. In the context of migrant workers from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries, the study finds that the death of a migrant from a district lowers migration outflows in subsequent months. Furthermore, this migration response is stronger when there have been more migrant deaths in recent months. Using relevant elasticities, this study finds that the migration response implies large changes in mortality rates perceived by potential migrants. Models of learning fallacies better explain the observed responses than a standard model of rational Bayesian learning
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7946
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    Get Rich or Die Tryin' : Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rate and the Value of a Statistical Life of Potential Work-Migrants from Nepal (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (41 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrestha, Maheshwor Get Rich or Die Tryin': Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rate and the Value of a Statistical Life of Potential Work-Migrants from Nepal
    Abstract: Do potential migrants have accurate information about the risks and returns of migrating abroad? And, given the information they have, what is their revealed willingness to trade risks for higher earnings? To answer these questions, this paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment among 3,319 potential work migrants from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries. The experiment provides them with information on wages and mortality incidences in their choice destination, and tracks their migration decision three months later. The findings show that potential migrants severely overestimate their mortality rate abroad, and that information on mortality incidences lowers this expectation. Potential migrants without prior foreign migration experience also overestimate their earnings potential abroad, and information on earnings lowers this expectation. Using exogenous variation in expectations for the inexperienced potential migrants generated by the experiment, the study estimates migration elasticities of 0.7 in expected earnings and 0.5 in expected mortality. The experiment allows the calculation of the trade-off the inexperienced potential migrants make between earnings and mortality risk, and hence their value of a statistical life. The estimates range from US
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7945
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    The Impact of Large-Scale Migration on Poverty, Expenditures, and Labor Market Outcomes in Nepal (2017)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (33 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrestha, Maheshwor The Impact of Large-Scale Migration on Poverty, Expenditures, and Labor Market Outcomes in Nepal
    Abstract: This paper studies the impact of migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 and 2011, the share of male working age population abroad more than doubled, mostly due to young men leaving to work in Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries. The paper studies the impact using instrumental variables as well as difference-in-difference methods. The findings show that increases in migration to Gulf-Malaysia explain 40 percent of the decline in poverty between 2001 and 2011. The estimates of the marginal propensity of consumption show that a
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8232
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    Potential Responses to the COVID-19 Outbreak in Support of Migrant Workers (2020)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Abstract: The note describes the key challenges facing the health, livelihoods, and mobility of internal and international migrants and their families due to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. The note presents the policy options available to governments to address these challenges and describes the assistance that the World Bank can offer in areas related to social protection and jobs to support these efforts. The living and working conditions of internal and international migrants make them vulnerable to contracting COVID-19 (Coronavirus). Measures put in place to control disease transmission both within and across countries have resulted in significant disruption in transportation networks and in labor markets that have hit migrant workers hard. The resulting decline in remittances will transmit these negative impacts to the families of migrants. Travel restrictions may lead to labor shortages in critical sectors like agriculture that are dominated by migrant workers. While the specific type of support that should be targeted to migrants depends on location, legal status, and type of migration, most migrants will need access to safety nets in the form of cash or in-kind assistance to support them as they comply with transmission control measures and cope with the impacts of the crisis. Policies to support employment retention and promotion will be particularly important as a complement to these safety nets for internal migrants and migrants returning from abroad. Policies to offset the expected declines in remittances will be important for all migrants and their families. Programs created to respond to the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak should be migrant-sensitive to take into account the unique challenges facing migrants
    DOI: 10.1596/33625
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    A Deeper Dive into the Relationship between Economic Development and Migration (2023)
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (30 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrestha, Maheshwor A Deeper Dive into the Relationship between Economic Development and Migration
    Keywords: Communities and Human Settlements ; Development Economics and Aid Effectiveness ; Economic Development ; Growth ; Human Migrations and Resettlements ; International Economics and Trade ; International Migration ; Inverse-U ; Labor Markets ; Macroeconomics and Economic Growth ; Migration ; Migration Hump ; Migration Patterns ; Voluntary and Involuntary Resettlement
    Abstract: This descriptive paper provides a nuanced perspective on the relationship between development and migration, extending the non-parametric analysis in Clemens (2020). A few stylized patterns of migration emerge as countries develop. First, the migration response to development differs by the types of origin and destination countries. As low-income countries develop, their migration to high-income destinations increases slowly but steadily, whereas migration to other low-income or neighboring countries decreases at early levels of development. As middle-income countries develop, their migration to high-income countries increases steadily and plateaus once they reach sufficiently high levels of income. Second, the composition of migrants changes as countries develop. In particular, migrants to high-income destination countries become more educated. Third, the emigration response from middle-income countries is muted for countries with larger populations, particularly toward high-income destinations. These patterns suggest a strong role multiple transformations-such as increasing incomes, increased global integration, a demographic transition, increased human capital, and domestic structural change-play in changing migration patterns as countries develop. The paper explores these migration patterns in light of these transformations
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-10295
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    The impact of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Cambodia (2019)
    Washington, DC, USA : World Bank Group, Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 32 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8839
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shrestha, Maheshwor The Impact of Minimum Wage Hikes on Employment and Wages in Cambodia
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    Abstract: Using an event-study framework, this paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect participation rates in the affected sector-garments and footwear-or the unaffected sectors. However, the minimum wage hikes increased wages modestly (3 percent) for workers in the affected sectors and modestly decreased wages (1.5 percent) for workers in the unaffected sectors. The gains for the affected sectors are slightly larger at higher quantiles than at lower quantiles. This is suggestive of a change in compensation structure within the affected firms as a result of the hikes
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-8839
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    Returns to low-skilled international migration : evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia migration lottery program (2020)
    [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Social Protection and Jobs Global Practice
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 63 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 9165
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mobarak, Mushfiq Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration: Evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Lottery Program
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    Abstract: Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male migrant workers to Malaysia were selected via a large-scale lottery program. This study tracked the households of lottery applicants and surveyed 3,512 lottery winners and losers. Five years after the lottery, 76 percent of the winners had migrated internationally compared with only 19 percent of the lottery losers. Using the lottery outcome as an instrument, the paper finds that the government intermediated migration increased the incomes of migrants by over 200 percent and their household per capita consumption by 22 percent. Furthermore, low-skilled international migration leads to large improvements in a wide array of household socioeconomic outcomes, including female involvement in key household decisions. Such large gains arise, at least in part, due to lower costs of government intermediation
    DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9165
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    Independent child labor migrants (2013)
    In:  International handbook on the economics of migration (2013), Seite 98-120 | year:2013 | pages:98-120
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    ISBN: 9781783477364
    Language: English
    Titel der Quelle: International handbook on the economics of migration
    Publ. der Quelle: Cheltenham [u.a.] : Edward Elgar, 2013
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2013), Seite 98-120
    Angaben zur Quelle: year:2013
    Angaben zur Quelle: pages:98-120
    Keywords: Aufsatz im Buch
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