摘要:This paper aims to assess some of the positive and negative effects of international migration on Romania. In the first part, our study aims to statistically validate based on data on the economic and social reality of Romania between 2008 and 2015, the emigration reasons of 266 Romanians living abroad. The second part of our article studies the effect of capital remittances on the well-known and applied law of Okun from two different perspectives: destination countries and origin countries.