Implications of nurse migration on source countries: The case of the Philippines

• Main Author: Bitanga, France June E.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2006
• Subjects: Nurses—Supply and demand—Philippines; Nurses—Supply and demand; Foreign workers, Filipino; Emigrant remittances—Philippines; Labor Economics; Migration Studies; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6698
• Institution: De La Salle University

The employment demand of nurses abroad has serious repercussions to labor-sending countries. The push factors that impelled this movement resulting to local shortage must be determined in order to promote concrete alternatives. Reforms must be geared toward not only the improvement of the national h...