Labor emigration from Armenia: Analysis of existing policies and regulations

Abstract

By the end of twentieth century, Armenia has got a huge negative experience of mass emigration processes. The Karabakh conflict, earthquake of 1988 and the cold winters of 1991-92 have had their terrible consequences in the form of mass emigrations from Armenia. Large numbers of the population have left country, with a small hope to find satisfactory jobs and sustain themselves. Major share of these people later faced unemployment or has experienced difficulties in the employment process because of deceptive ways of labor provision. Although the previous stream of mass emigration has remained in the past, however there is still a significant continuation of the process in the form of overseas employment. The purpose of this study is to bring together all the existing policies of Armenia on labor emigration processes, find shortcomings and propose recommendations of how to improve them. This paper will analyze the current legislation of RoA on labor emigration, bring solutions to the existing problems in the legislation and in addition make comparison with that of Georgia and introduce the model of Philippines.