Otherwise the policy has drawbacks: at the very least it gives rise to serious unemployment within a particular minority, and at the worst it slows the pace of industrial upgrading for the whole country.
引進外勞的確紓解了國內缺工的壓力，但若未能適時調整腳步，小則造成特殊族群失業嚴重，重則會延緩整個國家產業升級的腳步。