Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295453 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 19/13
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
Significant income gains from migrating from poorer to richer countries have motivated unilateral (source-country) policies facilitating labor emigration. However, their effectiveness is unknown. We conducted a large-scale randomized experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. Our most intensive treatment doubled the rate of job offers but had no identifiable effect on international labor migration. Even the highest overseas job-search rate we induced (22%) falls far short of the share initially expressing interest in migrating (34%). We conclude that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of additional emigration.
Subjects: 
International migration
passport costs
barriers to migration
unilateral migration policy
imperfect information
job-matching
field experiment
Philippines
JEL: 
O15
F22
O15
C93
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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