Effects of Migration on Developing Countries: Explaining Labor Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families

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On Friday, September 12, 2008, Christoph Trebesch of the Free University of Berlin presented his findings from a paper on "Explaining Labour Market Inactivity in Migrant-Sending Families," which included a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on time allocation in migrant-sending families. David Grigorian of the International Monetary Fund served as a discussant and Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development, moderated the event.

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Event Type

• Seminar

Location

• Center for Global Development, 1800 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Third Floor, Washington, DC
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Time

• 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Research Topics

• Migration and Development

CGD Experts

Michael Clemens
Senior Fellow

Publications

• The Roots of Global Wage Gaps: Evidence from Randomized Processing of U.S. Visas - Working Paper 212
• A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development - Working Paper 201
• Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development - Working Paper 180
• The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration - Working Paper 173
• Migrants Count: Five Steps Toward Better Migration Data
• Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment - Working Paper 152