The Development Impact of a Best Practice Seasonal Worker Policy
By John Gibson, David J. McKenzie. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010
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Abstract Seasonal migration programs are widely used around the world, yet there is little evidence as to their development impacts. A multiyear prospective evaluation of New Zealand's Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) seasonal worker program allows us to measure the impact of participating in this program on households in Tonga and Vanuatu. Using a propensity-score prescreened difference-in-differences analysis based on surveys fielded before, during, and after participation, we find that the RSE has indeed had positive development impacts that dwarf those of other popular development interventions. It has increased income, consumption, and savings of households; durable goods ownership; and subjective standard of living. The results also suggest that child schooling improved in Tonga.
Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science
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- How Effective are Active Labor Market Policies in Developing Countries? A Critical Review of Recent Evidence (2017, background): “Gibson and McKenzie (2014) show that sending seasonal workers to New Zealand increased per-capita incomes in Tonga and Vanuatu by more than 30 percent.”