Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration
Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male migrant workers to Malaysia were selected via a large-scale lottery program. This study tracked the households of lottery applicants and surveyed 3,512 lottery winners and losers. Five years after the lottery, 76 percent of the winners had migrated internationally compared with only 19 percent of the lottery losers. Using the lottery outcome as an instrument, the paper finds that the government intermediated migration increased the incomes of migrants by over 200 percent and their household per capita consumption by 22 percent. Furthermore, low-skilled international migration leads to large improvements in a wide array of household socioeconomic outcomes, including female involvement in key household decisions. Such large gains arise, at least in part, due to lower costs of government intermediation.
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dig-okr-10986334082024-08-30T06:48:53Z Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration Evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Lottery Program Mobarak, Mushfiq Sharif, Iffath Shrestha, Maheshwor INTERNAL MIGRATION LABOR SKILLS GOVERNMENT INTERMEDIATION LOTTERY WELFARE Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in Bangladesh, where low-skilled male migrant workers to Malaysia were selected via a large-scale lottery program. This study tracked the households of lottery applicants and surveyed 3,512 lottery winners and losers. Five years after the lottery, 76 percent of the winners had migrated internationally compared with only 19 percent of the lottery losers. Using the lottery outcome as an instrument, the paper finds that the government intermediated migration increased the incomes of migrants by over 200 percent and their household per capita consumption by 22 percent. Furthermore, low-skilled international migration leads to large improvements in a wide array of household socioeconomic outcomes, including female involvement in key household decisions. Such large gains arise, at least in part, due to lower costs of government intermediation. 2020-03-04T14:26:45Z 2020-03-04T14:26:45Z 2020-02 Working Paper Document de travail Documento de trabajo http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/812241582828192310/Returns-to-Low-Skilled-International-Migration-Evidence-from-the-Bangladesh-Malaysia-Migration-Lottery-Program https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33408 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9165 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank application/pdf text/plain World Bank, Washington, DC |
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Many economists believe that the returns
to migration are high. However, credible experimental
estimates of the benefits of migration are rare,
particularly for low-skilled international migrants and
their families. This paper studies a natural experiment in
Bangladesh, where low-skilled male migrant workers to
Malaysia were selected via a large-scale lottery program.
This study tracked the households of lottery applicants and
surveyed 3,512 lottery winners and losers. Five years after
the lottery, 76 percent of the winners had migrated
internationally compared with only 19 percent of the lottery
losers. Using the lottery outcome as an instrument, the
paper finds that the government intermediated migration
increased the incomes of migrants by over 200 percent and
their household per capita consumption by 22 percent.
Furthermore, low-skilled international migration leads to
large improvements in a wide array of household
socioeconomic outcomes, including female involvement in key
household decisions. Such large gains arise, at least in
part, due to lower costs of government intermediation. |
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Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/812241582828192310/Returns-to-Low-Skilled-International-Migration-Evidence-from-the-Bangladesh-Malaysia-Migration-Lottery-Program https://hdl.handle.net/10986/33408 |
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