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The remittances of migrant Tongan and Samoan nurses from Australia

Overview of attention for article published in Human Resources for Health, April 2004
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Title
The remittances of migrant Tongan and Samoan nurses from Australia
Published in
Human Resources for Health, April 2004
DOI 10.1186/1478-4491-2-2
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John Connell, Richard PC Brown

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Migration and remittances are of considerable importance in the small Pacific island states. There has been a significant migration of skilled health workers in recent decades to metropolitan fringe states, including Australia and New Zealand. This paper reports the findings of a re-analysis of survey of Samoan and Tongan migrants in Australia where the sample is split between nurse households and others. METHODS: The study analyzes the survey data with a view to comparing the remittance behaviour and determinants of remittances for nurses and other migrant households, using both descriptive, cross-tabulations and appropriate econometric methods. RESULTS: It is found that a significantly higher proportion of nurse households sent remittances home, and, on average remitted more. Remittances of nurse households did not decline significantly over time contrary to what has generally been predicted. This was in contrast to other migrant households in the sample, for whom remittances showed a sharp decline after 15 years absence. Remittances contribute much more to the income of migrant sending countries, than the cost of the additional human capital in nurse training. CONCLUSIONS: Given the shortage of nurses in Australia and New Zealand, and therefore the high demand for immigrant nurses, investment by Pacific island governments and families in nurse training constitutes a rational use of economic resources. Policies encouraging investment in home countries may be more effective than policies directly discouraging brain drain in contributing to national development.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Thailand 1 1%
Australia 1 1%
Unknown 90 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Lecturer 23 25%
Student > Master 10 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Other 18 20%
Unknown 21 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 29 32%
Medicine and Dentistry 10 11%
Social Sciences 9 10%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 8 9%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 23 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 July 2009.
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#8,534,528
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Outputs from Human Resources for Health
#855
of 1,261 outputs
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#21,002
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Outputs of similar age from Human Resources for Health
#4
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