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The significance of labour migration for the workers' countries of origin

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  1. E. P. Reubens: International Migration Models and Policies, in: AER, Vol. 73 (1983), No. 2 (Papers and Proceedings), p. 178.

  2. The findings that follow are described in detail, with theoretical argumentation, in E. Tuchtfeldt, T. Straubhaar: Die Arbeitskräftewanderung aus dem Mittelmeerraum—Entwicklung und Bedeutung für die Herkunftsländer, in: H. Giersch (ed.): Probleme und Perspektiven der weltwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung, Berlin 1985.

  3. Myrdal's view that emigration is an irrational and very costly way of solving labour market problems because the country of origin has to bear the cost of education and training (G. Myrdal: Internationale Wirtschaft, Berlin 1958, pp. 117 f.) must be questioned in this instance.

  4. cf. in this context Commission of the European Communities: Programme of action in favour of migrant workers and their families, in: Bulletin of the European Communities, Supplement 3/76).

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Straubhaar, T. The significance of labour migration for the workers' countries of origin. Intereconomics 20, 15–20 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02928448

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