(Photo by Thanarak Khunton)Workers in Southeast Asia are on the move, and they don’t always go far. Thailand, Malaysia, and Singapore have become the region’s migration hubs and are now home to 6.5 million migrants from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the World Bank said. Southeast Asian nations have taken steps to reduce barriers to labour mobility to boost integration, but most efforts have focused on high-skilled workers such as doctors and engineers. They account for only about 5% of employment in the region, the World Bank said, as most migrants are low-skilled and often undocumented. Average wages in high-income Singapore are at least five times those of any other Asean country, while a Cambodian migrant can earn three times more by moving for work in Thailand, the World Bank said.

Source: Bangkok Post October 09, 2017 03:56 UTC