Why migrate to earn less? Changing tertiary education, skilled migration and class slippage in an economic downturn

What is it about?

This paper examines the changing experience of middle-class labour in an economic downturn and its relation to migration motivations.

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Why is it important?

At the heart of this paper is an intriguing question of why educated middle-class workers would leave metropolises with high standards of living to work in a provincial city abroad where they perform routine tasks and earn less than they would in comparable positions back home.