Determinants, Motives and Channels of Pacific Island Workers' Remittances from Australia

这项研究将为目前关于通过有针对性的工人计划扩大太平洋岛屿移民的移徙机会对移民输出社区的好处的政策辩论提供信息。澳大利亚工业和农业雇主正面临严重的劳动力短缺，而太平洋岛国政府正敦促澳大利亚和新西兰在失业率上升和政治不稳定的情况下向低技能工人开放劳动力市场。调查结果还将使澳大利亚外国援助组织更好地了解移民汇款的确定方式以及移民与汇款机构的互动。

This research will inform current policy debate on the benefits to migrant-sending communities of expanding migration opportunities for migrants from the Pacific islands through targeted worker schemes. Australian industry and agricultural employers are experiencing acute labour shortages while Pacific island governments are urging Australia and New Zealand to open their labour markets to low-skilled workers in the face of growing unemployment and political instability. The findings will also provide Australian foreign aid organisations with a better understanding of the way in which migrants' remittances are determined and migrant's interaction with money transfer agencies.