(((You've heard of "bedroom suburbs"? Well, Moldova is a "bedroom country." You might sleep there, but you work in some other nation. Commonly you work as an illegal alien, or as a hooker, but hey, such is "black globalization."
It sure pays a lot better than the jobs at home, and if you didn't send that foreign money home, there likely wouldn't be a Moldova.)))
MOLDOVAN MIGRANT WORKERS SEND HOME $1 BILLION IN 2006. Migrant workers from Moldova sent home a record $1 billion in 2006, dpa and
Infotag reported on December 19. Martin Wyss, a regional director for the International Organization of Migration (IOM), said an IOM survey indicated that the average Moldovan migrant worker sent home $1,333
in 2006. Those working in the European Union sent back $1,546. Close to one-third of Moldova's working-age population is employed abroad and cash remittances account for 30 percent of the country's gross domestic product, dpa reported. The Moldovan government has estimated that 65 percent of Moldovans who work abroad do so illegally.
Moldovan men work mostly in Ukraine or Russia in the construction industry or agriculture. The single largest city employing Moldovan migrant workers is Moscow, where an estimated 136,000 work. Moldovan women tend to work in Western Europe, Turkey, and Israel. They work most commonly in households, agriculture, and the sex industry. BW
