Labour mobility webinar series

Labour mobility webinar series

Labour mobility and the Pacific webinar series

Timor-Leste at 20: money from abroad, dreams of the island
2 December
Various speakers
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8,000 seasonal workers by 2025 from PNG
17 November
Natasha Turia-Moka, PhD Scholar, Department of Pacific Affairs, ANU
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Development and the Pacific Labour Scheme – a longitudinal survey of Timorese applicants and participants
13 October
Dr Michael Rose, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, ANU
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Pacific Migration Research Workshop
17 June 2021
Various speakers

Not by land nor by sea: the rise of formal remittances during COVID-19
13 April 2021
Dr Lelys Dinarte, Economist, Human Development Team, Development Research Group, World Bank
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Governance of the Seasonal Worker Programme in Australia and sending countries
9 December 2020
Professor Stephen Howes, Director, Development Policy Centre, ANU and Dr Richard Curtain, Research Fellow, Development Policy Centre, ANU
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Abundance from abroad: migrant income and long-run economic development
11 November 2020
Professor Dean Yang, Department of Economics and Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Pacific labour mobility and remittances in times of COVID-19
21 October 2020
Dr Dung Doan,Economist, World Bank, Dr Kenia Parsons, Social Protection and Jobs Specialist, World Bank, Dr Kirstie Petrou, Social Protection and Jobs Consultant, World Bank, Dr Matthew Dornan, Senior Economist, World Bank
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Medical worker migration and origin-country human capital: evidence from U.S. visa policy
23 September 2020
Dr Caroline Theoharides, Assistant Professor of Economics, Amherst College
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Gender differences in social learning among Vanuatu cocoa growers
26 August 2020
Alexandra Peralta, Lecturer in Agricultural and Food Economics, Centre for Global Food and Resources, University of Adelaide
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COVID-19: economic costs and responses in the Pacific
19 August 2020
Stephen Howes, Director, Development Policy Centre, ANU, Jenny Gordon, Chief Economist, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Neelesh Gounder, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of the South Pacific, and Maholopa Laveil, Lecturer in Economics, University of Papua New Guinea
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How to meet Australian demand for Pacific foreign vocational workers
12 August 2020
Michael Clemens, Director of Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy and Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development, and Satish Chand, Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development; Professor of Finance, School of Business, University of New South Wales; Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
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Is mobile money changing rural Africa? Evidence from a field experiment
15 July 2020
Cátia Batista, Associate Professor of Economics, Nova School of Business and Economics
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Migration and household finances: how a different framing can improve thinking about migration
10 June 2020
Timothy N. Ogden, Managing Director, Financial Access Initiative
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Migrant health workers are on the COVID-19 frontline: we need more of them
28 April 2020
Helen Dempster, Assistant Director and Senior Associate for Policy Outreach for the Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy Program, Center for Global Development, and Rebekah Smith, Non-Resident Fellow, Center for Global Development; Founder and Interim Director, Labor Mobility Partnerships (LaMP)
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