MIGRAŢIA EXTERNĂ PENTRU MUNCĂ DIN ROMÂNIA
EXTERNAL WORK MIGRATION FROM ROMANIA

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to describe the main features of external work migration from Romania. In the last years this phenomenon has become so wide-spread that it was characterized as a mass exodus of labour migrants. In many cases, work migration is not permanent, but temporary and sometimes circulatory. Most of the work migrants have as destinations EU countries (especially Spain and Italy) and their main motivation is the possibility to earn more money than in Romania. Many migrants send money back home (remittances), in order to support their families. This migratory process has contradictory effects on Romanian economy and society. On the one hand, there are the benefits: remittances improve income levels and standards of living; migration also keeps unemployment at a low level. On the other hand, work migration creates new, unforeseen problems, like labour shortage in some sectors of Romanian economy.

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