Migration, Jobs and Wages: Reassessing Benefits and Challenges of Labour Migration

Abstract

This NTS Report aims to add to the study on the benefits of labour migration, by going beyond the context of intra-regional trade and regional integration, and exploring other structural factors or conditions which allow for migration to have positive impact on wages in receiving countries. This Report, in particular, examines the linkage between labour migration and wages and analyses how the competitiveness of business firms/companies, and the conduciveness of country-level conditions to firm competitiveness, allow for a positive impact of migration on wages. Specifically, we want to examine whether having more competitive firms and providing a conducive business environment to boosting firm competitiveness, allow for wage increases in labour receiving countries, under an open migration policy.