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Migrants as Social Protection?: Simulations of a Market for Work Permits

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dc.contributor.authorDo, Quy-Toan
dc.contributor.authorLokshin, Michael M.
dc.contributor.authorRavallion, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-08T19:10:21Z
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dc.date.issued2025-01-08
dc.description.abstractWorkers have the right to take up any job offer in their country of citizenship but not to rent out that right. This paper shows that relaxing this restriction using a two-sided competitive market in work permits can provide a basic income guarantee for workers in migration-destination countries, financed by selling temporary work permits to migrant workers. Regulating the market by imposing a tax on work permits narrows the set of beneficiaries, the income of which can further be complemented with the revenues from such tax. Substantial gains in the destination countries’ gross domestic product can be expected, alongside the first-order gains to migrant workers who would not otherwise have access to the labor markets in destination countries. The paper provides a quantitative illustration by simulating a fictitious market for work permits between Mexico and the United States.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099931001072522042/IDU1ab8a5b411230e141c31b7ad1bfdb52551df9
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-11017
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/42638
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper; 11017
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectWORK PERMITS
dc.subjectMIGRATION
dc.subjectSOCIAL PROTECTION
dc.subjectTARGETING
dc.subjectPOVERTY
dc.titleMigrants as Social Protection?: Simulations of a Market for Work Permitsen
dc.typeWorking Paper
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okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-11017
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okr.topicCommunities and Human Settlements::Human Migrations & Resettlements
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.unitDECPH:Poverty
okr.unitIneq. & Human Dev (DECPH)
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