Emigration and Rising Wages in Myanmar: Evidence from Mon State.
Whether and how immigration affects labour markets is a hotly-debated and widely-studied topic. By contrast, the converse question of how emigration impacts labour markets in the source economy has remained largely understudied. In particular, whether outflows of labourers lead to higher wages in th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 56; no. 5; pp. 946 - 964 |
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