Mongolias labor export to South Korea: Its Impact and Policy Implication

Abstract

The labor migration in Mongolia is increasing year-by-year, in terms of low-job opportunities and low-wage in the country. Therefore, many people started to migrate to foreign countries to seek for jobs to improve their income and living starting from 1990s after the market transition. This paper focuses on Mongolian labor force export to South Korea, and its impact on personal level and further national level. To ascertain these issues whether labor export have significance in Mongolian economy and social matter in terms of employment condition or peoples living standard. This study follows theoretical model of push and pull factors to reveal the reasons of Mongolians migration to abroad. Method of the study relies on in depth interview with the contract workers in South Korea, which mostly analyzes the current trends of labor migration data findings. Additionally, the paper aimed to improve some findings of previous literatures that has not been studied. The paper investigates a number of key findings on Mongolian employment condition, wage difference between South Korea, pros and cons of working in South Korea, workers income and living improvement, current policy implications of Mongolia and South Korea towards labor export and labor force receiving and future prospect of Mongolias labor force export in the long-term.