Barriers and Foresight in International Labor-Migration

Peter Schaeffer

Environment and Planning A, 1984, vol. 16, issue 4, 451-466

Abstract: In the presence of barriers to mobility, migration behavior depends importantly on a worker's planning horizon. Although a myopic worker will accept the job offer promising the greatest immediate utility, a worker with foresight also values the opportunities that a job offers, to gain access to more highly valued alternatives. A model of labor migration based on these ideas, shows the importance of institutional arrangements and lends itself to the discussion of policy measures to influence labor migration.

Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.1068/a160451

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