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Over one million Filipinos leave their country every year to work. The high emigration figures not only concern the Philippine state, but also the economist Andreas Steinmayr. In July 2024, he resumed a long-standing collaboration with the Philippine Department of Immigration, providing researchers with valuable insights into migration dynamics.

Migration is not only an economic and socio-political issue in the destination countries of migrants, but also in their countries of origin. The Philippines is one such country where emigration has played a key role for decades—an estimated 10 million Filipinos live abroad, with many emigrating permanently and others temporarily to earn money.

Since 1980, the island nation has had several government agencies that take care of the concerns of Filipinos abroad, strengthen their relationship with their homeland, conduct mandatory training programs for emigrants and keep register data on those who leave.

A long-standing research cooperation with the Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO), the authority responsible for permanent emigrants, gives Prof. Andreas Steinmayr from the Institute of Public Finance and his colleagues the opportunity to look at migration from a unique and well-founded perspective.

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