Asian Labor Migration

Preface -- A Regional Perspective -- Asia’s Labor Pipeline: An Overview -- Asian Labor Migration: An Empirical Assessment -- Determinants of Current Trends in Labor Migration and the Future Outlook -- Government Policies and Programs Regulating Labor Migration -- East and Southeast Asia -- Southeast Asian Labor in the Middle East -- Skills and Earnings: Issues in the Developmental Impact on the Philippines of Labor Export to the Middle East -- Filipino Overseas Contract Workers: Their Families and Communities -- The Socioeconomic Consequences of Labor Migration from Thailand to the Middle East -- Labor Migration from Korea to the Middle East: Its Trend and Impact on the Korean Economy -- South Asia -- Socioeconomic Effects of International Migration on Pakistani Families Left Behind -- The Impact on the Family of Male Migration to the Middle East: Some Evidence from Kerala, India -- Migration for Employment in the Middle East: Its Demographic and Socioeconomic Effects on Sri Lanka -- The Economic and Noneconomic Impact of Labor Migration from Bangladesh