Maheshwor Shrestha
Biographic Data
| ID | 6447293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maheshwor Shrestha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maheshwor |
| FAMILY NAME | Shrestha |
| SIGNATURE | SHRESTHA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0009-0009-1494-1294 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
This article reports on a randomized field experiment in which potential work migrants from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries are provided with information on wages and mortality incidences at their intended destinations. It is found that, particularly for the group of potential migrants without prior foreign migration experience, the information changes their expectations of earnings and mortality risks abroad, which further chang…
Potential Responses to the Covid-19 Outbreak in Support of Migrant Workers
The note describes the key challenges \n facing the health, livelihoods, and mobility of internal and \n international migrants and their families due to the \n COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. The note presents the \n policy options available to governments to address these \n challenges and describes the assistance that the World Bank \n can offer in areas related to social protection and jobs to \n support these efforts. The living and working…
The Impact of Minimum Wage Hikes on Employment and Wages in Cambodia
Using an event-study framework, this \n paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between \n 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis \n finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time \n of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect \n participation rates in the affected sector -- garments and \n footwear -- or the unaffected sectors. However, the minimum \n wage hikes increased wages modestly (3 pe…
Death scares
Death Scares
This paper studies how potential work migrants infer mortality rates from incidents of migrant deaths. In the context of migrant workers from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries, the study finds that the death of a migrant from a district lowers migration outflows in subsequent months. Furthermore, this migration response is stronger when there have been more migrant deaths in recent months. Using relevant elasticities, this study fi…
The Impact of Large-Scale Migration on Poverty, Expenditures, and Labor Market Outcomes in Nepal
This paper studies the impact of \n migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market \n outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 and 2011, the share of male \n working age population abroad more than doubled, mostly due \n to young men leaving to work in Malaysia and the Persian \n Gulf countries. The paper studies the impact using \n instrumental variables as well as difference-in-difference \n methods. The findings show that increases in migration t…
Push and Pull
This paper studies migration choices in the presence of liquidity constraints and varying costs of migration. This paper presents a simple theoretical framework that analyzes migration response to both and factors in such settings. This framework implies that a shock to the factors in the origin leads to differential observed response to migration to various destinations, as the shocks affect different parts of the wealth distribution. The implic…
Get Rich or Die Tryin
Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about
You get what you pay for
You get what you pay for
Death Scares
This paper studies how potential work migrants infer mortality rates from incidents of migrant deaths. In the context of migrant workers from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries, the study finds that the death of a migrant from a district lowers migration outflows in subsequent months. Furthermore, this migration response is stronger when there have been more migrant deaths in recent months. Using relevant elasticities, this study fi…
The Impact of Large-Scale Migration on Poverty, Expenditures, and Labor Market Outcomes in Nepal
This paper studies the impact of \n migration on poverty, expenditures, and labor market \n outcomes in Nepal. Between 2001 and 2011, the share of male \n working age population abroad more than doubled, mostly due \n to young men leaving to work in Malaysia and the Persian \n Gulf countries. The paper studies the impact using \n instrumental variables as well as difference-in-difference \n methods. The findings show that increases in migration t…
Push and Pull
This paper studies migration choices in the presence of liquidity constraints and varying costs of migration. This paper presents a simple theoretical framework that analyzes migration response to both and factors in such settings. This framework implies that a shock to the factors in the origin leads to differential observed response to migration to various destinations, as the shocks affect different parts of the wealth distribution. The implic…
Get Rich or Die Tryin
Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about
The Impact of Minimum Wage Hikes on Employment and Wages in Cambodia
Using an event-study framework, this \n paper examines the impact of four minimum wage hikes between \n 2008 and 2015 on the Cambodian labor market. The analysis \n finds that, except for immediate adjustments around the time \n of the hikes, the minimum wage hikes did not affect \n participation rates in the affected sector -- garments and \n footwear -- or the unaffected sectors. However, the minimum \n wage hikes increased wages modestly (3 pe…
Death scares
Get Rich or Die Tryin’
This article reports on a randomized field experiment in which potential work migrants from Nepal to Malaysia and the Persian Gulf countries are provided with information on wages and mortality incidences at their intended destinations. It is found that, particularly for the group of potential migrants without prior foreign migration experience, the information changes their expectations of earnings and mortality risks abroad, which further chang…
Potential Responses to the Covid-19 Outbreak in Support of Migrant Workers
The note describes the key challenges \n facing the health, livelihoods, and mobility of internal and \n international migrants and their families due to the \n COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak. The note presents the \n policy options available to governments to address these \n challenges and describes the assistance that the World Bank \n can offer in areas related to social protection and jobs to \n support these efforts. The living and working…
Do bilateral labor agreements increase migration? Global evidence from 1960 to 2020
Economics (8 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Demography (3 works) · Labour economics (3 works) · Migrant workers (3 works)