Some Socio-Economic Effects of Labour Migration on the Sending Country. Evidence from Romania

Monica Roman () and Cristina Voicu

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Abstract: The paper presents the recent labor migration flows and trends and the impacts of these movements on Romanian economic and social life. After Romania joined the EU, the travel of Romanians inside the EU is totally free and they fructified this opportunity. There are important economic consequences of this movement. In the paper we analyze the demographic consequences, since category that emigrated for economic reasons in the last years is composed of youngsters (around 30). There are also important economic consequences on financial aspects and life quality of Romanians, since the volume of remittances was about 7 billion euros in 2007. There is also a social impact particularly on the lives of migrant families. The most problematic issue is the temporary abandonment of minors by their labour migrant parents, and that forced authorities to formulate policies to monitor the situation.

Keywords: regional labour migration; sending countries; human migration trends; migration impacts; Romania; transition economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I31 J13 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-02, Revised 2010-03
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