Orderly international migration of workers and incentives to stay--options for emigration countries.

Abstract

The two studies [presented here]...are slightly revised papers submitted to a Technical Seminar for Policymakers and Experts on `Migration and the Labour Market in Asia in the year 2000 Tokyo 19-20 January 1995....Abellas paper addresses the question of orderly labour migration from the point of view of the migrant-sending country to see to what extent governmental regulation and procedures can ensure that the movements of workers and their employment abroad is legal and respects standards laid down by that country....Lonnroths contribution is concerned with a question that has recently come to the fore in several national and international fora: what can one do to make it more attractive for people to stay at home than to move abroad? (EXCERPT)