These forms enable rapid adjustments to be made on both the supply and the demand sides: job-seekers are given the chance to re-enter the ranks of the employed quickly, and enterprises can cope with peaks in orders in a flexible and low-cost manner.
However, there are several considerations, which indicate that “arbitrage” per se is unlikely to have been a primary factor in influencing remittances or investment decisions by NRIs or foreign entities in the recent period.