The labour market situations vary enormously for the ten partner countries, 2015
Unemployment is most severe among young people, 2015
Agriculture is accounting for a declining share of employment, 2005–2015
Skills levels that are affected by emigration differ across the countries
Emigrants are more likely to have been employed than non-emigrants
In most countries, households receiving remittances from their emigrant members have the lowest share of working members
Self-employment accounts for a large share of employment in most countries
The share of self-employed people is higher among remittance-receiving households
Return migrants are more likely to be self-employed than non-migrants
Self-employment among return migrants is higher than before they left home
Households with return migrants are more likely to have a self-employed member
Occupational skills composition of non-migrants and return migrants differ
The share of employed adults is higher among immigrants than for the native population
Immigrant workers in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are more concentrated in lower skilled jobs
A higher share of beneficiaries from government employment agencies have no plans to emigrate than non-beneficiaries
The participation rate in vocational training programmes varies across IPPMD countries