International Trade and Labor Migration
Year: 2014
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Footloose labor is prominent in the contemporary international economy. Migrant workers have accounted for up to a quarter of the Swiss labor force, and 10 per cent of that of northern Europe generally. A number of American industries now depend heavily upon migrant labor (both legal and illegal) from Mexico and the Caribbean. South Asia supplies a large part of the labor for oil-financed Middle Eastern economic development. Pakistan, for example, now earns almost three-quarters as much foreign exchange from the remittances of temporary migrants abroad as from conventional exports; China has begun formally to contract the export of labor services…
Author: WILFRED J. ETHIER
Institution: University of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Topic: Migration and Labor Dynamics
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1538609955