scholarly journals The Effects of Labor Migration and OFW Remittances on the Level of Poverty in the Philippines

2022 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 203-221
Author(s):  
Kaye Louise Garcia ◽  
Karissa Habaña ◽  
Canto, Danielle
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Statistical Relationship ◽  
Significance Level ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The World ◽  
Overseas Filipino Workers ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Fixed Panel

Global labor mobility and Overseas Filipino workers have been a topic of interest due to its rapid growth and its apparent links with development goals. Among the 197 countries in the world, the Philippines has one of the highest rates of migration. In this paper, the researchers have examined the statistical relationship between migration and poverty through a study, using panel data from the years 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015, and 2018 in the Philippines. Specifically, the paper examined the degree of impact of migration on poverty using the GINI coefficient and GRDP as determinants for poverty, whilst Remittances is the constant variable used. The study aimed to determine whether remittances reduce poverty as Overseas Filipino Workers continue to increase yearly. The end results showed that there is a relationship amongst poverty, international labor migration, and remittances via the fixed panel data done but show a low significance level among the said variables. Thus, there is a relationship within the variables but a low significance level to the poverty in the Philippines.

Labor Migration to the Persian Gulf Monarchies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra R. Babar
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Unique Feature ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The World ◽  
Permanent Settlement ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Formal Integration ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The six oil monarchies of the Persian Gulf together form one of the most concentrated global sites of international labor migration, with some of the highest densities of non-citizens to citizens seen anywhere in the world. A somewhat unique feature of the region is that while it hosts millions of migrants, it allows almost no access to permanent settlement. Gulf States have hosted large cohorts of migrants for more than half a century but have done so without efforts toward formal integration through citizenship. Although labor migration as a phenomenon is both permanent and prominent, the Gulf States’ mechanism for governing migration systematically reinforces the temporariness and transience of their migrant populations.

Conceptualizing International Labor Migration: A Structuration Perspective

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Goss ◽  
Bruce Lindquist
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Anthony Giddens ◽  
Theory Of Structuration ◽  
International Labor Migration

This article applies the theory of structuration to international labor migration using case study material from the Philippines. It first provides a brief review of the functional and structural approaches to understanding labor migration and the theoretical impasse that has been created between them. It then reviews several attempts to resolve this impasse, including systems and networks approaches; these solutions are rejected on theoretical and empirical grounds. We suggest that migrant institutions may be a more appropriate mid-level concept than households or social networks to articulate various levels of analysis. We develop this concept in the context of the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens and attempt to apply this to the Philippines, concluding that this framework is eminently suited for further research on international labor migration.

International Labor Migration in a Globalizing Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Eteri Rubinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Labor Migration ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
International Labor Migration ◽  
International Labor Movement

International labor migration is a multi-level, multi-dimensional social phenomenon being studied by specialists of different branches of science. Scientific views on the content of the concept, causes, and factors behind it, consequences from it, etc., have been developing together with the progress of this phenomenon and are still developing it now. The chapter is dedicated to the influence of the world economic trends (globalization, integration, transnationalization) on the international labor movement and changes of theoretical approaches to its analysis in the historical development of society on the examples of relevant contemporary concepts.

Migration Networks: A Case Study in the Philippines

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce A. Lindquist
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Migration System ◽  
Dynamic Movement ◽  
International Labor ◽  
Internal Structures ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Government

International labor migration has been a major feature of the Philippine political economy the past twenty years. Originally envisioned by the government as a temporary measure to ease domestic employment pressure and stimulate industrialization, migration has persisted in the face of declining wages and abusive recruitment practices. Dynamic movement patterns have emerged that include a variety of destinations and occupations, drawing both males and females from widely diverse backgrounds. Focusing upon the experiences of a small community, this study suggests that contract labor is best understood within the migration process, linking global economic formations and domestic policy to internal structures in sending communities. The community experience reveals that economic forces and government policy are necessary conditions to establish potential migration, but actual flows are initiated and shaped by a migration system consisting of interpersonal relationships. What becomes more visible at the community level are the distinct phases of overseas employment, or periods of time dominated by particular types of migration and varying potential to achieve economic gains from such. The emergence and evolution of networks are analyzed for their role in shaping patterns of labor migration.

scholarly journals THE RIGHTS OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS DURING THE PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-23
Author(s):  
Nicoleta Enache ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
International Labor ◽  
The World ◽  
High Level

International migration characterizes contemporary social and economic life. As governments around the world take on this reality, they face the challenge of developing effective cooperation in this area. Migration is closely linked to the broader global transformations of the economic spheres, social, political and technological problems that affect a wide variety of political problems at a high level, and labor migration responds to the challenges posed by these changes that require presence of foreign workers in industrialized countries. Most migrants respond to employment problems and, in this regard, the International Labor Organization has been particularly concerned about employment prospects and migratory flows.

Trade and Turning Points in Labor Migration

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florian A. Alburo
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Turning Points ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Statistical Relationship ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Graphic Representations ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the relationship between trade and migration for the Philippines, South Korea and Thailand using three methods: (1) a comparison of graphic representations of trade and migration flows; (2) postulation and testing of a statistical relationship; and (3) a comparison of revealed comparative advantage for goods with that for services. In addition, trade and migration flows are presented for other Asian countries, namely Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The results reveal a correlation between turning points in trade and migration that supports the existing view that these flows are substitutes.

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