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Part One: A Regional Perspective 1. Asia’s Labor Pipeline: An Overview, 2. Asian Labor Migration: An Empirical Assessment 3. Determinants of Current Trends in Labor Migration and the Future Outlook 4. Government Policies and Programs Regulating Labor Migration Part Two: East and Southeast Asia 5. Southeast Asian Labor in the Middle East 6. Skills and Earnings: Issues in the Developmental Impact on the Philippines of Labor Export to the Middle East 7. Filipino Overseas Contract Workers: Their Families and Communities 8. The Socioeconomic Consequences of Labor Migration from Thailand to the Middle East 9. Labor Migration from Korea to the Middle East: Its Trend and Impact on the Korean Economy Part Three: South Asia 10. Socioeconomic Effects of International Migration on Pakistani Families Left Behind 11. The Impact on the Family of Male Migration to the Middle East: Some Evidence from Kerala, India, 12. Migration for Employment in the Middle East: Its Demographic and Socioeconomic Effects on Sri Lanka 13. The Economic and Noneconomic Impact of Labor Migration from Bangladesh
