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HOW DOES SKILLS MISMATCH AFFECT REMITTANCES? A STUDY OF FILIPINO MIGRANT WORKERS
Author(s) -
McDonald James Ted,
Valenzuela Maria Rebecca
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/coep.12167
Subject(s) - remittance , instrumental variable , affect (linguistics) , demographic economics , migrant workers , educational attainment , unit (ring theory) , work (physics) , labour economics , economics , business , psychology , economic growth , econometrics , mechanical engineering , mathematics education , communication , engineering
In this article, unit record data on Filipino migrants are used to analyze the issue of skills mismatch, its prevalence, and its impact on remittances sent back home. Results obtained using instrumental variable techniques reveal that significant proportions of highly educated Filipino workers are employed in low‐skilled jobs overseas, with systematic variation by gender and by country of work. We find that skills mismatch impacts significantly on the migrant's remittance behavior, with effects that are differentiated between genders. Specifically, where there is mismatch in the migrant's educational attainment and the migrant's job requirement, we find significant reductions in remittances for men but not for women. ( JEL J240 , J610 , O150 )