Migrant Labour

How sacrifices of migrant labour fuel economic boom

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The more things change, the more they remain the same. Many things have changed in the global economy: rapid movement of large amounts of capital, significantly expanded trade in goods and services, and also more cross-border movement of people, especially in the form of short-term economic migration. And yet, as labour markets in the global economy become at once more integrated and more complex, some crucial things about it, unfortunately, remain the same.