Managed Labor Migration in Afghanistan : Institutional Requirements and Policy Processes with and in Afghanistan

Smith, Rebekah

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: LABOR MARKET;    MIGRATION;    MIGRANT LABOR;    FACILITATION;    LABOR MOBILITY;   

RP-ID  :  122984

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

International labor migration isbecoming an increasingly important employment strategy fordeveloping countries. However, while increasing mobilitycreates huge potential increases in global welfare,accessing these gains requires careful management andfacilitation of labor flows to avoid low-level equilibria.Sending countries will need to design labor-sending systemsthat balance increased mobility with protection throughoutthe entire migration process, while ensuring that supply anddemand for specific skills are matched. This note proposes astructure for designing a labor-sending system and appliesthis structure to an assessment of the existinglabor-sending system in Afghanistan, which is currently invery nascent stages and is missing many fundamentalelements. It then applies the findings of this assessment topropose a way forward in building Afghanistan’slabor-sending system, along with an estimate of how long itwill take for the system to become operational.