Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/190243 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 822
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
Using a novel data set, we find that households with migrants experience a 26% drop in the labor force participation rate in four economies (Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan) from the Central Asia and South Caucasus region. It is twice as large for households with permanent migrants as for households with seasonal migrants. The results do not alter in the presence of selection on unobservables, model misspecification, and selection bias due to the absence of more productive workers. Direct evidence on the remittances that each household received is not available. The empirical findings do, however, suggest the possibility of an increase in reservation wages.
Subjects: 
emigration
labor mobility
JEL: 
F22
J61
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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