Neighbours: making bilateral worker schemes a win-win

Previous chapters in this report have pointed to the urgency of expanding job opportunities for the increasing numbers of youth in the Pacific, as well as the benefits of financial and 'social' remittances to the households of migrants. Previous discussion has also made the case for enhanced mobility of the non-elite sections of Pacific populations where permanent settlement using existing migration schemes in industrialised countries is largely irrelevant. For these reasons a study of the design of temporary seasonal worker arrangements has become important and timely.