“With an estimated 13% decline in employment across the region, the exit of expatriates could shrink the overall population by around 10% in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and 4% in Saudi Arabia and Oman. About 3.5 million of 30 million expatriates in the six Gulf Arab countries could be forced to return home.”
-Narayanappa Janardhan writes for Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington about the impact low oil prices and the coronavirus-induced economic slowdown in the Gulf Arab states could have on labor markets. [AGSIW]
