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Ban on female migrant workers: Skills-differentiated evidence from Sri LankaThis study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 in a difference-in-difference model...
Labour migration Employment WomenWorking Paper
Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907Using height as a proxy for physical productivity of labour, this paper estimates the selection of Mexican migration to the United States at the beginning of the flow (1906–08), and it exploits a natural experiment of history to evaluate the im...
Labour migration Self-selection International migrationWorking Paper
Incentives to labour migration and agricultural productivity: The Bayesian perspectiveUnderstanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries whose markets do not work well or are non-existent...
Labour migration Agriculture Bayesian treatment analysisWorking Paper
Labour migration in Indonesia and the health of children left behindEconomic research on labour migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the remittances of overseas migrant labour in the sending country’s economy...
Health Labour migration Children