Again, neither government has been able to stem the migration of skilled workers, and both have come to accept this as equally normative. Instead they have focused attention on developing a more skilled local workforce (see section 6.8.3) that may or may not migrate. A recent study of migration and remittances in Tonga (and Fiji Islands) revealed that as many as 60 per cent of all households in Tonga had at least one overseas migrant and remitter and 90 per cent of households received remittances (Brown et al. Similar percentages are evident in Samoa, where there is a widespread assumption that at least 90 per cent of households are remittance recipients.