ABSTRACT

One of the more interesting questions in the study of labour migrations is the role played by labour markets in the formation of flows. A simplistic view, not to be confused with some common sense or more stringent economic analysis, tends to explain the flows only on the basis of income imbalances in different labour markets. In this sense, migrations would function something like means conveying human agents from locations where employment is scarce or wages remuneration low, to other locations where employment is considerable or pay wages higher. Economic agents would, in one way or another, be aware of these imbalances and tend to move to locations where their labour capacity is better rewarded.