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  2. Migrant workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council region

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    One report stated that in Qatar 90% of low income workers do not have their passports in possession. [118] As seen above, some states, such as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE, [72] [68] [66] [67] [102] [121] have announced their commitment to amend the legal framework of the kafala system and to extend labor protection to migrant workers.

  3. Economic impact of illegal immigration to the United States

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    Immigrants to the U.S. are concentrated at both the high and low-income ends of the U.S. labor market, determined largely by their educational attainment. In 2004, at the low end, half of workers aged 25 and older who lacked a diploma were from Mexico and Central America.

  4. International factor movements - Wikipedia

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    The occupations that foreign unskilled workers fall into may in some cases actually be complements to the occupations of domestic unskilled workers, and, therefore, the work of the foreign unskilled workers could raise the marginal productivity of domestic laborers, rather than reduce their wages and employment rates as the traditional model ...

  5. Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates - Wikipedia

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    Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates describe the foreign workers who have moved to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for work. As a result of the proximity of the UAE to South Asia and a better economy and job opportunities, most of the migrant foreign workers are from India , Nepal , Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , Philippines and Pakistan .

  6. Labour economics - Wikipedia

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    Labour demand is a derived demand; that is, hiring labour is not desired for its own sake but rather because it aids in producing output, which contributes to an employer's revenue and hence profits. The demand for an additional amount of labour depends on the Marginal Revenue Product (MRP) and the marginal cost (MC) of the worker.

  7. Remittances from the United States - Wikipedia

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    The remittance market has been growing steadily for decades. Yet despite the growing demand, larger traditional banking institutions have been reluctant to offer competitive remittance services. Remittance services of banking institutions likely account for less than 5-10% of U.S.- Latin America money transfers. Despite Large profit margins ...

  8. Economic inequality - Wikipedia

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    Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).

  9. Macroeconomics - Wikipedia

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    The traditional LM curve is upward sloping because the interest rate and output have a positive relationship in the money market: as income (identically equal to output in a closed economy) increases, the demand for money increases, resulting in a rise in the interest rate in order to just offset the incipient rise in money demand. [52]