Wage arbitrage through skilled emigration: Evidence from the Pacific Islands

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies Pub Date : 2022-08-09 DOI:10.1002/app5.355

Satish Chand, Michael Clemens, Helen Dempster

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Skilled workers in poor countries earn wages a fraction of that of their counterparts in rich nations. Here, we estimate the opportunities for wage arbitrage from emigration of workers from the Pacific Islands into Australia and New Zealand. Our calculations, based on wages earned by graduate accountants, computer science graduates and cooks with Certificate III qualifications, reveal wage premiums of a factor of up to 10 from emigration. Likewise, the cost of training to Australian standards within the Pacific Islands is as little as a third of that in Australia meaning that the total factor of economic arbitrage is 30.

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技术移民带来的工资套利:来自太平洋岛屿的证据

贫穷国家技术工人的工资只是富裕国家工人工资的一小部分。在这里，我们估计了工人从太平洋岛屿移民到澳大利亚和新西兰的工资套利机会。我们的计算基于会计毕业生、计算机科学毕业生和具有三级证书资格的厨师的工资，结果显示，移民带来的工资溢价最高可达10倍。同样，在太平洋岛屿内按照澳大利亚标准进行培训的费用只有澳大利亚的三分之一，这意味着经济套利的总系数是30。

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Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies AREA STUDIES-

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3.20

自引率

5.30%

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审稿时长

6 weeks

期刊介绍： Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies is the flagship journal of the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. It is a peer-reviewed journal that targets research in policy studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, across a discipline focus that includes economics, political science, governance, development and the environment. Specific themes of recent interest include health and education, aid, migration, inequality, poverty reduction, energy, climate and the environment, food policy, public administration, the role of the private sector in public policy, trade, foreign policy, natural resource management and development policy. Papers on a range of topics that speak to various disciplines, the region and policy makers are encouraged. The goal of the journal is to break down barriers across disciplines, and generate policy impact. Submissions will be reviewed on the basis of content, policy relevance and readability.