Overseas Filipino workers and their impact on household poverty

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ISBN	9789221208310 (pbk.)
Call Number	HD5856.P6 D822 2008
Author	Ducanes, Geoffrey
Title	Overseas Filipino workers and their impact on household poverty / Geoffrey Ducanes and Manolo Abella
Imprint	Bangkok : ILO Asian Regional Programme on Governance of Labour Migration, 2008.
Physical	16 p. ; 27 cm.
Series Name	Working paper / ILO Asian Regional Programme on Governanceof Labour Migration ;no. 5
Summary	The paper finds evidence that it has a proportionally smaller but still significant part of new migrants are found to come from the lower income deciles; and families who are able to send a migrant abroad are able to climb up the per capita income ladder quite rapidly. On the other hand, half of OFWs are found to come from the richest quintile, indicating that returns to migration is also likely contributing to inequality.
Founding Information Note	With the compliments of International Labour Organization (ILO), Library
Subject	Migrant labor--Philippines
Coorperative Author	Abella, Manolo-710
Corporate Author	International Labour Organization. Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific
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300 ^a16 p. ;^c27 cm.

490 0 ^aWorking paper / ILO Asian Regional Programme on Governanceof Labour Migration ;^vno. 5

504 ^aIncludes bibliographical reference

520 ^aThe paper finds evidence that it has a proportionally smaller but still significant part of new migrants are found to come from the lower income deciles; and families who are able to send a migrant abroad are able to climb up the per capita income ladder quite rapidly. On the other hand, half of OFWs are found to come from the richest quintile, indicating that returns to migration is also likely contributing to inequality.

536 ^aWith the compliments of International Labour Organization (ILO), Library

650 0^aMigrant labor^zPhilippines

700 ^aAbella, Manolo-710

710 1 ^aInternational Labour Organization.^bRegional Office for Asia & the Pacific

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856 40^3Content^uhttp://library.nhrc.or.th/ulib/document/Content/T05448.pdf

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