> the worker gets screwed Are you referring to the guest worker here, or the general labor class in the host country? I'd imagine the former gets a substantial

> the worker gets screwed Are you referring to the guest worker here, or the general labor class in the host country? I'd imagine the former gets a substantial net benefit too, relative to the counterfactual in which he's making domestic country wages that are a tiny fraction of his remittance + consumption.