Documents et rapports
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Toward Safer and More Productive Migration for South Asia (anglais)
International migration for temporary employment is a critical component of South Asia’s development path, from both the jobs and remittance flows perspectives. South Asian economies are at a stage of...
Type de document: Rapport Numéro du rapport: 147272 Date du document: 16 novembre 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahmed, S. Amer,Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves
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Capital Markets, Temporary Migration and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from Bangladesh (anglais)
Limited access to credit due to poorly functioning institutions is a key constraint to business creation. This paper examines the role played by temporary migration in addressing the institutional void...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9930 Date du document: 7 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves,Görlach,Joseph-Simon,Ozden,Caglar,Wang,He
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Return Migrants and the Wage Premium : Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter ? (anglais)
This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country. Using unique data from the Arab Republic of Egypt, which allows distinguishing between...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9753 Date du document: 23 août 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Elmallakh,Nelly Youssef Louis William,Wahba,Jackline
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Temporary Migration for Long-term Investment (anglais)
In the presence of credit constraints, temporary migration abroad provides an effective strategy for workers to accumulate savings to finance self-employment when they return home. This paper provides...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9740 Date du document: 28 juillet 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bossavie,Laurent Loic Yves,Gorlach,Joseph-Simon,Ozden,Caglar,Wang,He
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Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : Lessons from the Literature (anglais)
This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries, focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do migrants face? What...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9662 Date du document: 13 mai 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Selod,Harris,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Maximizing the development impacts from temporary migration recommendations for Australia’s seasonal worker program (anglais)
The Seasonal Worker Program (SWP) was formally introduced in 2012 following a four yearpilot scheme. The SWP maintains the dual objectives of: (i) contributing to the economicdevelopment of nine participating...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 127068 Date du document: 11 juin 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Doyle,Jesse Jon Gerome,Sharma,Manohar
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Maximizing the development impacts from temporary migration : recommendations for Australia’s seasonal worker program (anglais)
The seasonal worker program (SWP) was formally introduced in 2012 following a four-year pilot scheme. The program maintains the dual objectives of: (i) contributing to the economic development of nine...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 122270 Date du document: 1 octobre 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Doyle,Jesse Jon Gerome,Sharma,Manohar
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Asymmetric information about migrant earnings and remittance flows (anglais)
The authors examine asymmetric information about migrant earnings and its implications for remittance behavior using a sample of Indian households with husbands working overseas in Qatar. On average, wives...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 129210 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Seshan,Ganesh Kumar,Zubrickas,Robertas
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Maximizing the development impacts from temporary migration : recommendations for Australia’s seasonal worker programme (anglais)
The Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP) was formally introduced in 2012 following a four-year pilot scheme. The SWP maintains the dual objectives of: (i) contributing to the economic development of nine participating...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 124648 Date du document: 1 janvier 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Doyle,Jesse Jon Gerome,Sharma,Manohar
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Cluster country program evaluation on small states : Pacific Island countries program evaluation (FY05–15) (Vol. 1 of 2) (anglais)
This appendix is an adjunct to the main report. It is not intended as a free-standing Country Program Evaluation (CPE) on the World Bank in Tonga. It provides additional underpinning and evidence for the...
Type de document: IEG Evaluation Numéro du rapport: 108537 Date du document: 1 janvier 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Charlier,Florence M.,Hutton,Stephen,Kavalsky,Basil G.,Rubbani,Swizen
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Asymmetric information about migrant earnings and remittance flows (anglais)
This paper examine asymmetric information about migrant earnings and its implications for remittance behavior using a sample of Indian households with husbands working overseas in Qatar. On average, wives...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7368 Date du document: 15 juillet 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Seshan,Ganesh Kumar,Zubrickas,Robertas
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Modeling migration dynamics in Albania : a hazard function approach (anglais)
Since 1990 migration flows from Albania have been massive, relative to the size of the country and its population, but they have also fluctuated over time. This paper presents and discusses various descriptive...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4945 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Azzarri,Carlo,Carletto,Calogero
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Migration from Zambia : ensuring temporariness through cooperation (anglais)
The paper analyzes migration from Zambia in order to understand how migration policy can support development in the least developed countries. Overall emigration from Zambia is not high by regional standards...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4145 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin, Mohammad,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Does temporary migration have to be permanent? (anglais)
The choice between temporary and permanent migration is today central to the design of migration policies. The authors draw a distinction between the two types of migration on the basis of the associated...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3582 Date du document: 1 mars 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Amin,Mohammad,Mattoo,Aaditya