Good Report About Labor Migration In Europe

In order to study the urgent issue of growing labor migration I took the EU as a perfect example of such tendency given its lasting integration process and increased opportunities to change one’s workplace within the Union as well as problems arising out of it. Thus I based my report on the article “Issues of labor migration” by Liliana Gheorghe who explored the problems that the Romanian migrants and Romania itself have to face while trying to be engaged in the so-called free flow of labor within the EU. Romania is a good example of emerging economies that often become a source of migrants to the advanced industrialized countries. Therefore this study can be applied to many other similar cases of migration all over the world. The main aim of this paper is to discover how migration affects both migrants and their countries of origin with regard to the reasons of such moves.

A Summary of the Article

The article argues that both countries of emigration and immigration experience both advantages and drawbacks of this process. For instance, host countries of migratory flows on the one hand gain from immigration as it covers workforce shortage within the country, but on the other hand they increase competitiveness among their citizens and immigrants. In terms of countries-sources of migration, they benefit from repatriated citizens who have earned a lot of expertise working abroad before returning to their countries of origin. But at the same time GDP of countries of origin may be afflicted by the significant loss of workforce which might have supplied the economy with taxes and consumer spending. Moreover, country of origin suffers from loss of highly qualified staff whose work within the country is essential to enhance the competitiveness of the whole economy. However, despite all the disadvantages, it is considered that the positive effects of the migration outweigh the negative ones.
It is also stated in the article that the decision to migrate is taken with regard to many factors including wage differences between the country of origin and host countries, direct costs of migration, psychological costs and lost earnings during the search of country of destination (Gheorghe 2-3). If the possible earnings prevail over the drawbacks of migration, this trend will continue to grow.

A Data Set the Article Uses

The quantitative indices employed in the article were derived from Eurostat.
Importance of the Article and Its Contribution
The article covers the issue which is becoming topical nowadays due to globalization and convergence of economies which seem to have affected the entire world. The move towards the eradication of any barriers on the way of trade and labor flow is sometimes considered threatening, especially for the developing countries. The article proves this idea wrong pointing out that there are more benefits from migration for both host countries and countries of origin on the whole.
However, what attracts particular attention to the work is the research into the results of migration which states that any person willing to migrate has to evaluate both their prospective earnings and the costs triggered by migration, since in some cases moving to another country is not worth it.
The migration processes today has many weaknesses that have to be settled. First of all, migration has to be subject to law which has to envision all the rights and freedoms of migrants. Secondly, all the states should work on mutual recognition of diplomas and work experience so as to simplify the process of adaptation for migrants and to increase the chance of them returning to their countries of origin in the future. Such steps would help to smooth out some of the problems arising out of migration.

Work cited

Gheorghe, Liliana. “Issues of Labor Migration.” Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology (2015). Web. 22 March 2015.