Let Their People Come

Let Their People Come
Author: Lant Pritchett
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2006-09-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1944691065

In Let Their People Come, Lant Pritchett discusses five "irresistible forces" of global labor migration, and the "immovable ideas" that form a political backlash against it. Increasing wage gaps, different demographic futures, "everything but labor" globalization, and the continued employment growth in low skilled, labor intensive industries all contribute to the forces compelling labor to migrate across national borders. Pritchett analyzes the fifth irresistible force of "ghosts and zombies," or the rapid and massive shifts in desired populations of countries, and says that this aspect has been neglected in the discussion of global labor mobility. Let Their People Come provides six policy recommendations for unskilled immigration policy that seek to reconcile the irresistible force of migration with the immovable ideas in rich countries that keep this force in check. In clear, accessible prose, this volume explores ways to regulate migration flows so that they are a benefit to both the global North and global South.

Labour Migration

Labour Migration
Author: James Henry Johnson
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1990
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs

Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2014-09-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9264216502

This publication gathers the papers presented at the “OECD-EU dialogue on mobility and international migration: matching economic migration with labour market needs” (Brussels, 24-25 February 2014), a conference jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD.

Regional Integration and Labour Mobility

Regional Integration and Labour Mobility
Author: Adam Heal
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-05-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789211207255

This paper, published as part of the ESCAP series Studies in Trade and Investment, explores the linkages between trade, labour mobility and development in the Asia-Pacific region. The paper moves from an analysis of recent trends in regional labour mobility through an examination of the connections between trade, migration and development. Finally it considers how migration could be better governed at the multilateral, regional and bilateral levels. A central theme of the paper is that, when properly governed, labour mobility can deliver large and sustained development gains. Improving cross-border labour market access, particularly for people from developing countries, therefore needs higher prioritization by regional policymakers. At the same time, the concerns of receiving country populations around higher levels of immigration also need to be addressed. Striking this balance will require, in particular, the expansion and further adoption of co-operative agreements between sending and receiving countries which provide labour market access in return for more cooperation in migration management and enforcement.

The OCA Criterion of Labour Mobility and Education

The OCA Criterion of Labour Mobility and Education
Author: Bastien Alvarez
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015
Genre:
ISBN:

This paper presents a model aimed at studying the effects on the choice of spendings in education by the Government when it is possible for young workers to go work in another country of a monetary union. It then discusses the implication related to the OCA criterion of labour mobility. More precisely, it develops a two-periods model studying the choice of investment in education by a government which wants to maximise the aggregate consumption of its citizens, under incertainty about the future productivity level (standing as an asymetric shock) and with wage rigidities. This model predicts that under some assumptions, regarding the efficiency of education investment and the relationship between the likeliness to migrate and the human capital level, the very possibility for agents to leave their country will reduce incentives for the government to invest in education, although migrations do allow help to adjust the economy to a potential shock creating unemployment, as predicted by the OCA theory.

OECD Employment Outlook 2012

OECD Employment Outlook 2012
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2012-07-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9264177906

This 30th edition of the OECD Employment Outlook examines the labour market performance of OECD countries as well as the prospects in the short term.

European Somalis' Post-Migration Movements

European Somalis' Post-Migration Movements
Author: Joëlle Moret
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2018-09-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319956604

Based on a qualitative study on migrants of Somali origin who have settled in Europe for at least a decade, this open access book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the idea of mobility, both empirically and theoretically. It draws a comprehensive typology of the varied “post-migration mobility practices” developed by these migrants from their country of residence after having settled there. It argues that cross-border mobility may, under certain conditions, become a form of capital that can be employed to pursue advantages in transnational social fields. Anchored in rich empirical data, the book constitutes an innovative and successful attempt at theoretically linking the emerging field of “mobilities studies” with studies of migration, transnationalism and integration. It emphasises how the ability to be mobile may become a significant marker of social differentiation, alongside other social hierarchies. The “mobility capital” accumulated by some migrants is the cornerstone of strategies intended to negotiate inconsistent social positions in transnational social fields, challenging sedentarist and state-centred visions of social inequality. The migrants in the study are able to diversify the geographic and social fields in which they accumulate and circulate resources, and to benefit from this circulation by reinvesting them where they can best be valorised.The study sheds a different light on migrants who are often considered passive or problematic migrants/refugees in Europe, and demonstrates that mobility capital is not the prerogative of highly qualified elites: less privileged migrants also circulate in a globalised world, benefiting from being embedded in transnational social fields and from mobility practices over which they have gained some control.