Migration has important effects on earnings and employment of individuals, on the overall labour market, and on economic growth which the projects in this thematic area aim at understanding. Migration, both internal and international, can also play an important role in responses to natural disasters, political conflict, and climate change, with large labour market consequences. Some of the questions to be answered in this thematic area include: the impact of migration on left-behind population in LICs and how that relates to the labour markets; the labour market impact of migration associated with natural disasters, political conflict, and climate change; the kinds of policies that can enhance the positive effects of out-migration, return migration, or remittances for the LICs and their labour markets.
In rural agrarian economies, the period between planting and harvest is often a “lean season” when labor demand and wages fall, and the price of staples rise. The landless poor reliant on agricultural work on others’ farms are especially hard...
The project consists of two parts. Transitions out of agriculture and into other sectors of the economy are a necessary part of economic development. In Africa, some of the traditional routes out of agriculture- through the domestic industrial...
Millions of people around the world have been forced to abandon their homes due to conflict, as either international refugees or internally displaced persons. Forced migration produces significant economic impacts. These impacts involve multiple...
Migrants have long been thought to play a central role in helping an economy to make efficient use of its resources. That migration acts as a force of arbitrage– that it takes place, that it encourages equilibrium, and that it leads to an...
Recent research has shown that migrant remittances are extremely important sources of funding for developing countries, as they are generally large in magnitude and stable in times of macroeconomic volatility. But there is still much to be learned...
