Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236263 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14232
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We follow 3,512 (of 1.4 million) applicants to a government lottery that randomly allocated visas to Bangladeshis for low-skilled, temporary labor contracts in Malaysia. Most lottery winners migrate, and their remittance substantially raises their family's standard of living in Bangladesh. The migrant's absence pauses demographic changes (marriage, childbirth, household formation), and shifts decision-making power towards females. Migration removes enterprising individuals, lowering household entrepreneurship, but does not crowd out other family members' labor supply. One group of applicants were offered deferred migration that never materialized. Improved migration prospects induce pre-migration investments in skills that generate no returns in the domestic market.
Subjects: 
government-intermediated international migration
JEL: 
F22
O12
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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