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Low-skilled Labor Migration: Benefits Outweigh Costs in Host Economies

— theme: Labour migration policy
— country: Global
— type: Guidelines

While low-skilled labor migration is not without cost, the list of benefits in host economies is long: low-skilled migrants enable natives to specialize in more highly paid jobs, reduce the cost of non-traded services, lower the cost of production, and increase firms’ global competitiveness.

Low-skilled Labor Migration: Benefits Outweigh Costs in Host Economies
Author/Editor
Uri Dadush, Soonhwa Yi
Publishing Year
2014
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