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. There...

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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 MIGRANT JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET REMITTANCES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY SOCIAL INSURANCE POVERTY
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655651559662594130/Migration-and-Jobs-issues-for-the-21st-century http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31807

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spelling	okr-10986-318072021-05-25T09:46:12Z Migration and Jobs : Issues for the 21st Century Christiaensen, Luc Gonzalez, Alvaro Robalino, David MIGRATION MIGRANT JOB CREATION LABOR MARKET REMITTANCES LABOR PRODUCTIVITY SOCIAL INSURANCE POVERTY 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 to better integrate and coordinate policies for addressing the different market and regulatory failures. The paper advances five types of interventions in need of particular attention in terms of 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. 2019-06-06T20:41:05Z 2019-06-06T20:41:05Z 2019 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/655651559662594130/Migration-and-Jobs-issues-for-the-21st-century http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31807 English Jobs Working Paper;No. 33 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper
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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 to better integrate and coordinate policies for addressing the different market and regulatory failures. The paper advances five types of interventions in need of particular attention in terms of 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.
format	Working Paper
author	Christiaensen, Luc Gonzalez, Alvaro Robalino, David
author_facet	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/655651559662594130/Migration-and-Jobs-issues-for-the-21st-century http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31807
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