Theoretical studies on solving poverty problems in developing countries in terms of international labour migration and child labour

• Project/Area Number: 15K03356
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic theory
• Research Institution: Nagasaki University
• Principal Investigator: SHIMADA Akira 長崎大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (60196475)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2020-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
• Budget Amount: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
• Keywords: 貧困 / 国際労働移動 / 人的資本 / 国内労働移動 / 頭脳流出 / 頭脳獲得 / グローバル教育 / 移転可能性 / 国際移転可能性 / 国際学生移動 / 教育政策 / バグワッティ税 / 閾値外部性 / 世代重複経済 / 労働移動 / 人的資本の国際的移転可能性 / 賃金格差 / 人的資本の移転可能性 / 留学 / 児童労働 / 人的資本形成 / 貧困の罠 / 世代間外部性 / 教育供給 / 不均一性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the first half of the study, I investigated the effects of labour migration by the parent due to poverty on education and human capital formation of the child through the provisions of unpaid and paid labour by the child. I also investigated how the wage disparity affects the choice of internal labour migration pattern and human capital formation.
In the second half of the study, I investigated the effect of the globalization of tertiary education on human capital formation. I formulated the education policy to prevent the brain drain under the international mobility of workers and students. In addition, I investigated the effects of the international transferability of human capital on its formation of the labor-sending country. By conducting these studies, I looked for the way for developing countries to get away from poverty.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

今日、国際社会での格差の拡大にともない、児童労働、国際労働移動は急速に悪化、増加している。貧困の大きな原因の1つである人的資本の不十分な形成が児童労働や国際労働移動と関係し合っているという事実は見過ごされてきた。本研究はこれに着目し、児童労働や国際労働移動から貧困問題に接近した。貧困解消という社会的に重要な課題を研究対象としたばかりでなく、これまで行なわれなかった方法でこの問題に取り組んだことが、本研究の社会的、学術的意義である。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Should the Government Promote Global Education? (2019)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Journal Title: European Research Studies Journal Volume: 22 Issue: Issue 2 Pages: 323-341
  • DOI: 10.35808/ersj/1447
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] The Education Policy Challenge to the Brain Drain Problem (2019)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Education Economics and Development Volume: 10 Issue: 4 Pages: 335-355
  • DOI: 10.1504/ijeed.2019.102740
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Parental migration, paid child labour, and human capital (2017)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Social Economics Volume: 44 Issue: 3 Pages: 312-325
  • DOI: 10.1108/ijse-06-2015-0156
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Wage Disparities and Internal Migration Patterns (2016)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Journal Title: Korea and the World Economy Volume: 17 Pages: 1-30
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Parental ｍigration, unpaid child labour, and human capital (2015)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Social Economics Volume: 42 Issue: 10 Pages: 906920-906920
  • DOI: 10.1108/ijse-11-2013-0253
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] The Effects of Migration Possibilities on Human Capital Formation under the Pecuniary Cost for Receiving Education and the Intergenerational Externality (2015)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada, Tsutomu Kidota
  • Journal Title: 佐賀大学経済論集 Volume: 48 Pages: 2754-2754
  • NAID: 110010040601
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Presentation] Can a Host Country Increase Human Capital by Accepting Study Migrants? (2019)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 33rd Annual Conference of the European Society for Popluation Economics
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Can a Host Country Increase Human Capital by Accepting Study Migrants? (2019)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 2019 Econometric Society Australasian Meeting
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Can a Host Country Increase Human Capital by Accepting Study Migrants? (2019)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 18th International Conference of the Japan Economic Policy Association
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Transferability of Human Capital, the Brain Drain, and the Brain Gain (2018)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 2018 China Meeting of the Econometric Society
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Is Global Education a Blessing? (2018)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 2018 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Is Global Education a Blessing? (2018)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The XXVIIth Meeting of the Economics of Education Association
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Transferability of Human Capital, the Brain Drain, and the Brain Gain (2018)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 23rd Annual Workshop on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Ingeracting Agents
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Is Global Education a Blessing? (2018)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 20th Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Can a Host Country Increase Human Capital by Accepting Study Migrants? (2018)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: Western Economic Association, 15th International Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Brain Drain and Education Subsidies (2017)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: China Meeting of the Econometric Society 2017
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Transferability of Human Capital, the Brain Drain, and the Brain Gain (2017)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: European Economics and Finance Society 16th Aunual Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Transferability of Human Capital, the Brain Drain, and the Brain Gain (2017)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 9th International Symposium on Human Capital and Labor Markets -- Celebrating Release of the China Human Capital Report 2017
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Brain Drain and Education Subsidies (2017)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 6th International Conference on Economics and Finance Research
  • Place of Presentation: アパホテル〈京都祇園〉EXCELLENT（京都府京都市）
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Do ageing societies need more immigrants to provide the elderly with care? (2016)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: 2016 Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学（京都府京都市）
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Brain Drain and Education Subsidies (2016)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 6th Global Business and Finance Research Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Howard Civil Service International House, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Brain Drain and Education Subsidies (2016)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: Th 14th Asian Pacific Conference 2016
  • Place of Presentation: 立命館アジア太平洋大学（大分県別府市）
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Do ageing societies need more immigrants to provide the elderly with care? (2015)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada, Tatsuyoshi Miyakoshi
  • Organizer: 日本経済学会
  • Place of Presentation: 上智大学（東京都・千代田区）
  • Year and Date: 2015-10-10
• [Presentation] Wage Disparities and Internal Migration Patterns (2015)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The 17th Annual Conference of the European Trade Study Group (ETSG)
  • Place of Presentation: パリ大学1パンテオンソルボンヌ（フランス）
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-11
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Wage Disparities and Internal Migration Patterns (2015)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The International Conferences oｆ the Association of Korean Economic Studies (AKES) on Korea and the World Economy
  • Place of Presentation: Metro Park Lido Hotel, Beijing, China
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-08
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Wage Disparities and Internal Migration Patterns (2015)
  • Author(s): Akira Shimada
  • Organizer: The Third International Conferences on Asian Studies
  • Place of Presentation: 国際大学(新潟県・南魚沼市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-06-21
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] Network Theory and Agent-Based Modeling in Economics and Finance (2019)
  • Author(s): A. S. Chakrabarti, L. Pichl, T. Kaizoji, A. Vie, S. Iwanaga, M. Kubo, A. Ruiz-Buforn, S. Alfarano, E. Camacho-Cuena, A. E. Biondo, I. Yagi, Y. Masuda, T. Mizuta, A. Ishikawa, S. Fujimoto, T. Mizuno, V. Venkatasubramanian, Y. Luo, R. Lahkar, J. Kukacka, T.-W. Yen, M. Filippov, S. A. Cheong, A. Shimada et al.
  • Total Pages: 458
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 9789811383182