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Returns to Low-Skilled International Migration: Evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Lottery Program

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dc.contributor.authorMobarak, Mushfiq
dc.contributor.authorSharif, Iffath
dc.contributor.authorShrestha, Maheshwor
dc.date.accessioned2020-03-04T14:26:45Z
dc.date.available2020-03-04T14:26:45Z
dc.date.issued2020-02
dc.description.abstractMany 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.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/812241582828192310/Returns-to-Low-Skilled-International-Migration-Evidence-from-the-Bangladesh-Malaysia-Migration-Lottery-Program
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9165
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/33408
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9165
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectINTERNAL MIGRATION
dc.subjectLABOR SKILLS
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT INTERMEDIATION
dc.subjectLOTTERY
dc.subjectWELFARE
dc.titleReturns to Low-Skilled International Migrationen
dc.title.subtitleEvidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Lottery Programen
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okr.crossref.titleReturns to Low-Skilled International Migration: Evidence from the Bangladesh-Malaysia Migration Lottery Program
okr.date.disclosure2020-02-27
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/812241582828192310/Returns-to-Low-Skilled-International-Migration-Evidence-from-the-Bangladesh-Malaysia-Migration-Lottery-Program
okr.guid812241582828192310
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9165
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum090224b08767a503_1_0
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum31822494
okr.identifier.reportWPS9165
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okr.pdfurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/812241582828192310/pdf/Returns-to-Low-Skilled-International-Migration-Evidence-from-the-Bangladesh-Malaysia-Migration-Lottery-Program.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeSouth Asia
okr.region.countryBangladesh
okr.statistics.combined1864
okr.statistics.dr812241582828192310
okr.statistics.drstats1204
okr.topicInternational Economics and Trade::International Migration
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Migration and Development
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Employment and Unemployment
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitSocial Protection and Jobs Global Practice
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