title: Barriers and foresight in international labor-migration.
abstract: "In the presence of barriers to mobility, migration behavior depends importantly on a worker's planning horizon.  Although a myopic worker will accept the job offer promising the greatest immediate utility, a worker with foresight also values the opportunities that a job offers, to gain access to more highly valued alternatives.  A model of labor migration based on these ideas...shows the importance of institutional arrangements and lends itself to the discussion of policy measures to influence labor migration....[The proposed model] is one of large-scale labor-migration [and] focuses on the availability of jobs, the worker's planning horizon, and how these factors affect his migration decisions."
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Schaeffer
mesh_terms: D001519:Behavior; D003657:Decision Making; D003710:Demography; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D018803:Models, Economic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009790:Occupations; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012106:Research; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Behavior; Decision Making; Demographic Factors; Economic Factors; Economic Model; Employment Status; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Force; Migration; Migration Policy; Models, Theoretical; Occupations; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Research Methodology; Social Policy; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; World