Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century

With an estimated 724 million extreme poor people living in developing countries, and the world's demographics bifurcating into an older North and a younger South, there are substantial economic incentives and benefits for people to migrate. T...

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Main Authors:	Christiaensen, Luc, Gonzalez, Alvaro, Robalino, David
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2019
Subjects:	MIGRATION JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET REMITTANCES SOCIAL INSURANCE INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT LABOR MOBILITY MIGRANT ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LABOR TAX
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/665381559066230778/Migration-and-Jobs-Issues-for-the-21st-Century http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31749

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spelling	okr-10986-317492022-08-20T12:16:34Z Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century Christiaensen, Luc Gonzalez, Alvaro Robalino, David MIGRATION JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET REMITTANCES SOCIAL INSURANCE INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT LABOR MOBILITY MIGRANT ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LABOR TAX With an estimated 724 million extreme poor people living in developing countries, and the world's demographics bifurcating into an older North and a younger South, there are substantial economic incentives and benefits for people to migrate. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration. This paper reviews the recent literature and proposes a conceptual framework for better integration and coordination of policies that can address the different market and regulatory failures. The paper advances five types of interventions in need of particular attention in design, implementation, and evaluation; namely, (1) active labor market programs that serve local, regional, and foreign markets; (2) remittances and investment subsidies to promote job creation and labor productivity growth; (3) social insurance programs that cover all jobs and facilitate labor mobility; (4) labor taxes to internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate the flow of migrants and minimize irregular migration. 2019-05-30T20:16:27Z 2019-05-30T20:16:27Z 2019-05 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/665381559066230778/Migration-and-Jobs-Issues-for-the-21st-Century http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31749 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8867 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	MIGRATION JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET REMITTANCES SOCIAL INSURANCE INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT LABOR MOBILITY MIGRANT ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LABOR TAX
spellingShingle	MIGRATION JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET REMITTANCES SOCIAL INSURANCE INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT LABOR MOBILITY MIGRANT ACTIVE LABOR MARKET PROGRAM LABOR PRODUCTIVITY LABOR TAX Christiaensen, Luc Gonzalez, Alvaro Robalino, David Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century
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description	With an estimated 724 million extreme poor people living in developing countries, and the world's demographics bifurcating into an older North and a younger South, there are substantial economic incentives and benefits for people to migrate. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration. This paper reviews the recent literature and proposes a conceptual framework for better integration and coordination of policies that can address the different market and regulatory failures. The paper advances five types of interventions in need of particular attention in design, implementation, and evaluation; namely, (1) active labor market programs that serve local, regional, and foreign markets; (2) remittances and investment subsidies to promote job creation and labor productivity growth; (3) social insurance programs that cover all jobs and facilitate labor mobility; (4) labor taxes to internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate the flow of migrants and minimize irregular migration.
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author	Christiaensen, Luc Gonzalez, Alvaro Robalino, David
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title	Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century
title_short	Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century
title_full	Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century
title_fullStr	Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century
title_full_unstemmed	Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century
title_sort	migration and jobs : issues for the 21st century
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2019
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/665381559066230778/Migration-and-Jobs-Issues-for-the-21st-Century http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31749
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