Globalisation's Impact on Labour Migration: An Economic Perspective

This essay delves into the intricate relationship between globalisation and labour migration, exploring its multifaceted impacts on the global economy. The paper begins by defining globalisation as the removal of national restrictions, facilitating the movement of wealth, goods, and, crucially, labor. It then highlights the significant influence globalisation has on cross-border labor movements, often governed by immigration policies and driven by push and pull factors. The essay presents a balanced perspective, examining both the positive and negative consequences of globalisation-induced labor migration. It discusses the role of technology in increasing opportunities for skilled labor mobility, as well as the creation of new occupations. Simultaneously, the essay acknowledges the downsides, such as job displacement in certain sectors and the potential for increased migration pressures. The paper uses the example of Chinese internal migration, and it concludes that while labour migration, spurred by globalisation, offers advantages for both sending and receiving countries, challenges such as cultural integration and competition for jobs also arise. The essay suggests that migration can be considered a growth engine for all parties involved, including workers who migrate across borders. The essay cites various sources to support the arguments.

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Globalisation has created labour migration that brings advantage to the
world
The aim of the paper is to reflect upon how globalisation has created the impact on labour
migration that leads to the advantage to world. In the dynamic environment, globalisation is not
internationalization but it is an actual deletion of countrywide restrictions that are opening the
way not only for the allowed flexibility of wealth and good but also in result to allowed
association of wide labour groups from areas of fastest growth of inhabitants. It has been
characterized in recent globalisation trends by great incorporation of worldwide markets for
goods, service, and capital through the different boards. Globalisation has majorly influence is on
cross broader movement of persons as well as workforce remains much more limited, controlled
by immigrants rules as well as policies that support the attitude of employee migration substitute
majorly as push and pull factor (Hanson, Hitt, Ireland, and Hoskisson, 2016). The paper shows
the positive as well as negative side that how globalisation has created the labour migration that
brings the advantage to the world.
Globalisation has had significant associations majorly for the worldwide workforce migrations
that is performing as push and pull aspect for the companies. On the other hand migration is
refers to as movement of individual or a group of people across the different global boarder
within the state. The labour migration has been witnessed which include the movement of person
from one state to another or within the won country of residence majorly for the purpose of
employment (Sassen, 2018). The migration of labour is acknowledged by most of stated
according to their migrating laws. Globalisation majorly reflects the link between the
international labour markets with the help of major improvement in information as well as
communication technology. The requirement for the high tech skills leads to the rise in the
opportunities for the mobility of skilled labour (Potrafke, 2015). Simultaneously, extended trade
would bring the decline in the essential for relocation by forming the new occupations majorly in
the founded nations. This has been witnessed that virtual mobility enabled by ICT that has
correspondingly endorsed subcontracting as well as more occupations in founded regions. At the
same time, globalization directed to spreading dissimilarities of occupation chances revenues as
well as the living standards at unlike areas of world. In some countries, globalisation has

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unfavourably shaped the impact on occupations as well as incomes majorly in the outdated
sectors. The major disaster of globalisation is to form new jobs where people survive is a prime
factor in improving the migration pressure.
In the economy, each year millions of women land men leave their households as well as cross
national boarders in exploration of the high safety for their family. In the human history,
migration is considered as the courageous expression for the individual persons who will to deal
with adversity as well as they live a better life (Robertson, 2017). Most of the labour gets
motivated for the migration because of higher wages as well as the improved opportunities
within the market. On the other hand, some of male and female gets motivated for migration
because of famine, violent, conflicts, natural disasters and many other factors. This has been
witnessed that globalisation has opened a new way for these employees which leads to
betterment for entire world.
The migration of labour due to globalisation has developed a maintenance approach for
women and men due to absence of openings related to the full occupation as well as decent work
in numerous developing countries like India, Bangladesh and many others. For instance, dual
structure is present in Chinese economy with developed coastal area as well as underdeveloped
west (Schierup, Munck, Likic-Brboric, and Neergaard, 2015). The government of china predicts
that there are approx. 130 million internal migrants’ workers who perform the work in China of
whom there are 80 million have moved from inferior interior areas to beach metropolises. Thus,
it has been witnessed that Chinese internal migration in terms of physical measure which is
superior to much cross-border passage. It has been found that the major failure of globalisation
that took place in the country is when the people needs to face the different types of immigration
challenges for getting the countries with rise in number of options in selecting the candidates
(Johnson, and Salt, 2018). Moreover, at some of developing countries like America people are
compulsory to migrate with the uneven position that has been reason of anxiety for communities
operating internationally.
According to the research, most of the world’s migrants in the year 2005 were expected
at 191 million as they migrate for employment as well as for their families that was possible due
to globalisation. Further, in 2017, this has been witnessed that migrant’s workers are accounted
for approx. 59% of the world’s global migrant inhabitants (Migration Data Portal, 2019).

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Globalisation has seen the rise of international labour market with the high mobility of
employees. It has been found that surge in migration has taken place since the year 1970 with the
doubling in different number of migrants. Majorly, the flow of labour shows the gulf among the
richer as well as poorer economies with the rapid increase in the rate of population in developing
countries (Manning, 2012). Moreover, crossing the boarders to the work has remained the
difficult task for the candidates because they have to leave their families behind. However, this
has contributes for the betterment of world as they have improved the economy also have
utilized the skills at the appropriate place so that they can bring the development in the
companies which leads to growth and development of world.
In the research, this has been proving that globalisation has created employees migration that can
attend as a machine of growth as well as expansion for all parties that include both the host as
well as source countries. In addition, it also offers the benefits to workers who are migrated
themselves across the world (Triandafyllidou, 2018). The receiving nations has revitalized
personnel, concentrated financial outdated sectors that majorly include agriculture and other
sectors, and met the needs for helps for high or emerging markets, assisted pension schemes, and
many others. In the developing regions, there is positive contribution of migration that is very
clear with the rise in the transfer of investment, remittances flow and many others. As per the
report of Global Economic Prospects, World Ban has expected a large amount of increases in
real revenue to journey's end as well as source nations if in case the labour force of high-income
nations that were to be improved even with the uncertain level through migration.
In the research shows that host country, implication of in-migration that labours fill the
gap that is available in the market. The countries like USA, Canada, Australia, UK, and Germany
have different policies that are selectively for motivating migration. Moreover, it has been found
that foreign market required effective skills in field of medical, which can be fulfilled, with the
help of transfer of skills as medical doctors of Indian are transferred in UK for offering their
services in the market (Cohen, 2016). In addition, globalisation leads to labour migration that
leads to the contribution in economic growth. The migrant to host countries leads to rise in the
ability to accelerate the technical progress within the economy. Moreover, the employees who
are working in host country like UK will pay the tax contribution from their incomes that are
earned by them that are utilized further for the betterment of economy as well as country. This

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does not provide the benefit to one country but also to different countries across the different
areas which ultimately leads to advantage to entire world.
Contradicting the major issue that has been witnessed include the fear of local culture as
well as practices being diluted by different foreign ways. The labour migration growth
globalisation invites different labour from different sections of world that maintain wide range of
culture. In every different culture across the world, have different practices and culture that is
witnessed in their practice of work. Thus, this makes the host country to deal with the fears of
local cultures as well as practices by foreign ways (Hirst, and Thompson, 2019).
Disagreeing to the fact, that globalisation leads to labour migration that leads to increase
in global competitiveness that is a positive side. The rise in the competitiveness is essential
within the host country because this is the only way through which the employees of the own
country work in order to improve their skills and to provide the benefit to their countries (Onaran
and Guschanski, 2017). However, on the other hand, this has been witnessed that if there are
positive affect of labour migration due to globalisation then there is negative affect too. One of
the major negative elements is the fear of being squeezed out of jobs by incomers that shows that
the unskilled labour in such countries fills that are majorly known as 3D that is dirty, dangerous,
and difficult jobs.
Furthermore, the impact to government budget is also a negative factor that arise when
globalisation lead to impact on labour migration. In most of the countries, the migrants who are
not permanent residents cannot provide the access to the labour for the welfare related to
services. However, the demand for the social services are increasing that includes health,
education, as well as welfare (Agergaard, 2016). Thus, this issue affects the labour to migrant to
another country. Although, this has been witnessed in research that labour market are becoming
more linked with the different sectors that include improvement in technology, political changes,
as well as industries that are performing the outsourcing functions, which contributes in the
developed, and growth. Moreover, the labour migration contributes as advantage as employees
settle in the countries with their children.
In the end, this can be concluded that migration is considered as one of the historical as
well as volatile process. The international migration can occur for economic as well as for the

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non-economic reasons. This has been witnessed that the system of migration is good for both the
immigration and emigration country because it leads to rise in the effective utilization of the
labour towards the advantage to world. The migration of the labour occurs due to globalisation
that contributes as advantage for world. Further, it has been found that this migration of labour
lead to the benefits and drawbacks to host country that are discussed within the paper.

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