Question

What are the advantages and disadvantages of migration in economics​

Answer 1

Answer:

Advantages

• The host country will receive more labor, both skilled and unskilled.
• The emigrants will be able to send money back home.
• Diversity will increase in host country
• Competition for resources in the country being emigrated from is reduced.

Disadvantages

• Workforce reduces in home country of emigrant.
• Possible "Brain Drain" - Brain drain refers to when skilled people such as doctors leave a country and go to another. The country they left will suffer because there is now less skilled labor in the country.
• Overcrowding in host country
• Conflict might arise due to clash of cultures in host country