Outline the causes and effects of one movement of labour from one region to another.

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Charis Ow

Mr Ben Hough

Global Interactions – HL extension

Economic interactions and flows

Outline the causes and effects of one movement of labour from one region to another.

Unemployment has been a serious issue occurring in many regions such as South Asia, where population is growing rapidly and its undeveloped economies –further elevating unemployment rates. Over the years, individuals struggle to look for suitable occupations up to the extent of migrating overseas due to many reasons.

There are many causes of the movement of labour from one region to another –one of them is the low wages from their origin which pushes them to look for a better one as it does not pay well enough for them to support their families. For example, LEDCs such as India and Bangladesh would opt for a better lifestyle as they commonly perceive that working overseas would help them to live a more improved lifestyle. In addition to that, labour workers might find that there are better paid wages in other regions such as South East Asia and the Americas so that they could support their family -providing better food and necessities. Besides that, rapid economic development in these MEDCs attracts labour workers to migrate overseas as they believe the economy is more stable and there will be fewer fluctuations of inflation rates so that they would have less risky and long-term jobs.  

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This movement of labour brings many effects to the origin, destination and the individual migrants. Due to large movement of labour, the origin would suffer from the difficulty of searching for labour workers for the own development of the country. Therefore, without sufficient source of labour –brain drain, the origin would not be able to develop and improve, preventing economic growth and progress of the country.

However, the migration could also be beneficial for the destination country as it is able to have access to cheap labour. For example, in Malaysia, many LEDC such as Bangladeshis and Myanmarese ...

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A brief answer to the question posed. Some good points are made but lack of case study examples weakens the argument somewhat. 3 stars