Seasonal migration

There is an ongoing argument in most industrialised countries about the influx of foreign workers and its effect on the local economy. But the sociologists John Gibson and David McKenzie have looked on the issue from the other side. In a recent research, they have examined the effect from the labour of the so-called Gastarbeiter (guest workers) on their own societies. And it turns out this effect is really significant.

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  (Cross-posted to talk_politics).