Chapter 12: Migration
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. Which of the following types of migration is least relevant to international production?
a. Permanent high skilled migration.
b. Refugees.
c. Temporary high-skilled migration.
d. Temporary low-skilled migration.
2. Which of the following is not a shift factor in the emigration supply curve?
a. Relative wages.
b. Youth population growth.
c. Education levels.
d. Migrant networks.
3. Which of the following is the least relevant for high–skilled migration?
a. Technological change.
b. Transnational communities.
c. Fertility rates.
d. Training.
4. Which of the following characterizes high-skilled migration?
a. Demand is related to skills-based technological change in higher-income destination
counties.
b. It is closely related to “hard-core non-tradable services.”
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c. It can be subject to a great deal of illegality.
d. All of the above.
5. Which of the following is not a benefit associated with remittances?
a. The channeling of flows through migrant networks.
b. The use of remittances as a risk-management strategy by low-income households.
c. Directly transmitting a greater percentage of the flow relative to foreign aid.
d. Causing brain drain from developing countries.
TRUE/FALSE
1. Brain circulation is the same concept as remittances.
2. Total remittances exceed US$400 billion per year.
3. Mode 4 of service delivery is a type of foreign direct investment.
4. Changes in relative wages shift the emigration supply curve.
5. Youth population growth shifts the emigration supply curve.
6. Most international migration is from the lowest-income countries.
7. There has been more liberalization of migration flows than of other aspects of economic
globalization.
SHORT ANSWER
1. What is the significance of return migration?
2. Describe the temporary movement of natural persons. To what part of the WTO is it most
closely related?
3. What is the significance of migration networks?
4. How does migration policy differ from policy in other areas of economic globalization?
5. Please describe the idea of a migration hump.