The Elasticity of the Migrant Labour Supply: Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants.
The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labour supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility maximisation model used to analyse location decisions with a classical labour demand function at destinatio...
| Published in: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 53; no. 11; pp. 1822 - 1835 |
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