Seasonal Labor Mobility in the Pacific: Past Impacts, Future Prospects (Asian Development Review: Volume 38, Number 1

We then review the impacts of the RSE and of the SWP on economic development in the Pacific in section IV. [...] Therefore, an annual total may be higher than what was the cap at the beginning of the year, but by the time of the newly raised cap at the end of the year, the annual total number of arrivals is below the cap. [...] This scheme is like the RSE, with the main differences concerning 6Another way to consider the incidence of continuous participation is that out of the original 22 participants in an RSE workers’ longevity study covering the period from 2007 to 2018, of which 11 had participated in the World Bank pilot, nine workers still participated in the scheme in the 2017/18 season, with seven of the nine hav. [...] Australia Given the small numbers of SWP workers in Australia initially and the lack of large-scale studies in the various states and industries employing seasonal workers, gauging the contribution of SWP workers to growth in various sectors is difficult. [...] increase by approximately the same amount (in terms of standard deviations) as the increase in income.11 Gibson and McKenzie (2014a) scaled up these gains in income per participating worker by the total number of participating workers to calculate aggregate impacts of NZ$5.3 million in Tonga and NZ$9.7 million in Vanuatu in the first 2 years of the RSE program.