scholarly journals Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
David John McKenzie ◽  
Caroline Barclay Theoharides ◽  
Dean Yang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Destination Country ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Economic Shocks

scholarly journals Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
David McKenzie ◽  
Caroline Theoharides ◽  
Dean Yang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Business Cycles ◽  
International Migration ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Global Business ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Wage Change

We use an original panel dataset of migrant departures from the Philippines to identify the responsiveness of migrant numbers and wages to GDP shocks in destination countries. We find a large, significant response of migrant numbers to GDP shocks at destination, but no significant wage response. This is consistent with binding minimum wages for migrant labor. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international migration attractive also make migrant flows more sensitive to global business cycles. Difference-in-differences analysis of a minimum wage change for maids confirms that minimum wages bind and demand is price sensitive without these distortions. (JEL F22, J31, J38, J61, O15)

The State

2019 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Jeffrey J. Sallaz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Reproductive Choices ◽  
The Road ◽  
Global Labor Market ◽  
Development State

The Philippine state is a key mediator in the global labor market for voice. Colonization by Spain and the United States generated what the scholar Walden Bello calls an “anti-development state.” Catholic ideology limits women’s’ reproductive choices, while a migrant labor policy sends the country’s best and brightest abroad to work and remit money back home. For ordinary Filipinos who finish college, the result is a bifurcated choice: leave the country to find prosperity or stay at home and live in poverty. The megacity of Manila is where so many Filipinos find themselves negotiating this difficult fork in the road.

scholarly journals The Effect of Refugee Integration on Migrant Labor in Jordan

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Spencer Hartnett
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Household Wealth ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Informal Labor ◽  
Work Permit ◽  
Syrian Civil War ◽  
Negative Impacts

AbstractBefore the Syrian civil war, Egyptians were the single largest migrant labor community in Jordan. Labor market pressures and changes to the Jordanian work permit system have resulted in the increasing vulnerability of Egyptian labor, who have been the primary labor force on Jordanian farms and construction sites since the late 1970s. Using new data from the 2015 Jordanian census, the 2010 and 2016 Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey, and field interviews conducted in Jordan from 2014 to 2018, I show that higher concentrations of Syrians at the subdistrict level are associated with higher rates of informal labor market participation for Egyptians. Furthermore, higher proportions of Syrians do not correlate with negative impacts on the formality or household wealth of Jordanian citizens, suggesting that Syrian labor does not directly compete with the Jordanian labor force. Given the importance of supporting host communities during refugee crises, this analysis sheds light on how mass forced migration affects other vulnerable segments of the migrant labor force in the Global South.

scholarly journals Fairness and Freight-Handlers: Local Labor Market Conditions and Wage-Fairness Perceptions in a Trucking Firm

ILR Review ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric A. Verhoogen ◽  
Stephen V. Burks ◽  
Jeffrey P. Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Local Labor Market ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Wage Rates

The authors draw on an internal attitude survey conducted yearly from 1996 to 2000 in the freight-handling terminals of a unionized trucking firm to investigate the effect of local labor market conditions on employee wage-fairness perceptions. Their research design exploits the fact that local managers had no discretion to vary wage rates in response to local labor market conditions; local economic shocks thus generated exogenous variation in the attractiveness of the wage paid by the firm relative to employees' options in the outside labor market. The authors find robust associations between the wage-fairness perceptions of employees in the firm and two indicators of local conditions—the rate of unemployment and the wages of similar workers in the outside market. They argue that these correlations reflect a causal relationship: an increase in unemployment or a decrease in outside wages led workers to perceive their wage to be more fair.

scholarly journals The Impact of Economic Shocks on Workers' Labor Market Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hannah Illing
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Job Displacement ◽  
Market Impact ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
Supply Shock ◽  
The Impact

In this dissertation, I analyze the effect of economic shocks on workers' labor market outcomes. In the first part of this thesis (Chapter 2), I investigate a labor supply shock in the form of cross-border migration. Chapters 3 and 4 in the second part of this thesis focus on the labor market impact of job displacement, resulting from a mass layoff, on individual workers’ careers.

scholarly journals Economic Shocks and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 158-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Dix-Carneiro ◽  
Rodrigo R. Soares ◽  
Gabriel Ulyssea
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
Dynamic Responses ◽  
Temporary Increase ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Public Goods Provision ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
Exogenous Shocks ◽  
Tariff Reductions

This paper studies the effect of changes in economic conditions on crime. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as a natural experiment generating exogenous shocks to local economies. We document that regions exposed to larger tariff reductions experienced a temporary increase in crime following liberalization. Next, we investigate through what channels the trade–induced economic shocks may have affected crime. We show that the shocks had significant effects on potential determinants of crime, such as labor market conditions, public goods provision, and income inequality. We propose a novel framework exploiting the distinct dynamic responses of these variables to obtain bounds on the effect of labor market conditions on crime. Our results indicate that this channel accounts for 75 to 93 percent of the effect of the trade–induced shocks on crime. (JEL D31, F13, F16, H41, K42, O17, O19)

Global Economic Crisis and Migrants’ Labor Market

2012 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
I. Tsapenko
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Migrant Labor ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Deep Recession ◽  
Conditions Of Employment

The article deals with the extent to which the deep recession of the economies of the developed countries at the end of the 2000s has caused crisis processes at the labor market. The author considers the effects of the recession in the segment of migrant labor arising from the nature of its operation. Also, it is explored how the continued flow of foreign labor affects the conditions of employment of local workers. It is shown that the crisis augmented the negative impact of immigration on working conditions and employment opportunities of local workers. However, it is concluded that in case of the economic recovery the immigration may help to expedite it.

scholarly journals The effect of gender-specific labor market conditions on children’s weight

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bongkyun Kim ◽  
Michael R. Thomsen ◽  
Rodolfo M. Nayga ◽  
Anthony Goudie
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Female Labor ◽  
Labor Market Conditions ◽  
American Children ◽  
Gender Specific

Abstract Background Macroeconomic conditions are widely known to influence health outcomes through direct behavioral change or indirect mental effects of individuals. However, they have not received much attention in relation to childhood obesity. Methods Using gender-specific predicted employment growth rates as an index for labor market conditions, we analyze how economic shocks affect children’s weight status in Arkansas. To understand the underlying mechanisms behind these results, we use data on individual time use to examine how economic shocks are related to activities related to children’s weight. Results Improvement in the female labor market is associated with an increase in body mass index (BMI) and the probability that a child is overweight or obese, while an improvement in the male labor market has no significant effects on children’s weight. This impact is particularly evident among female children, older children, and African-American children. We also find a negative effect of improvements in the female labor market on time spent on preparation for foods at home. Conclusions These results suggest that a decrease in time spent preparing home-cooked foods might be a plausible explanation for the pro-cyclical relationship between children’s weight and improvement in the labor market conditions. Thus, the policy implications of our paper should be aimed at mitigating the adverse effects of women’s labor participation.

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