The Art of Survival: Kyrgyz Labor Migration, Human Capital, and Social Networks

Vinokurov, Evgeny (2013): The Art of Survival: Kyrgyz Labor Migration, Human Capital, and Social Networks. Published in: Central Asia Economic Papers , Vol. no. 7,

Abstract

Age, education, income discrepancy, and unemployment level are the main factors that define the portrait of the Kyr-gyz labor migrant. Remittances shape the present state of the Kyrgyz economy;the quality of human capital, and its future. Efficiently functioning social networks abroad play a significant role in a migrant's decision to work abroad, and his or her choice of destination and job. That labor has freedom of movement is essential to Kyrgyzstan’s accession to the Belarus-Kazakhstan-Russia Customs Union.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: regional integration, labor migration, remittances, human capital, Kyrgyzstan
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F22 - International Migration; F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F24 - Remittances; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J61 - Geographic Labor Mobility ; Immigrant Workers

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