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Who Needs Migrant Workers? - Labour shortages, immigration, and public policy (Hardcover)
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Who Needs Migrant Workers? - Labour shortages, immigration, and public policy (Hardcover)
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Are migrant workers needed to "do the jobs that locals will not do"
or are they simply a more exploitable labor force? Do they have a
better "work ethic" or are they less able to complain? Is migrant
labor the solution to "skills shortages" or actually part of the
problem? This book provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing
the demand for migrant workers in high-income countries. It
demonstrates how a wide range of government policies, often
unrelated to migration, contribute to creating a growing demand for
migrant labor. This demand can persist even during economic
downturns. The book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses
of the changing role of migrants in the UK economy. The empirical
chapters include in-depth examinations of the nature of staff
shortages and the use of migrant workers in six sectors: health;
social care; hospitality; food production; construction; and
financial services.
The book's conceptual framework and empirical findings are of
importance to academic and policy debates about labor immigration
in all high-income countries. The final chapter presents a
comparative analysis of research and policy approaches to assessing
labor shortages in the UK and the US. It examines the potential
lessons of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) for current
debates about labor shortages and immigration reform in the US. The
book will be of significant interest to policy-makers,
stakeholders, academics and students.
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