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Many low-income countries and development organizations are calling for greater liberalization of labor immigration policies in high-income countries. At the same time, human rights organizations and migrant rights advocates demand more equal rights for migrant workers. The Price of Rights shows why you cannot always have both. Examining labor immigration policies in over forty countries, as well as policy drivers in major migrant-receiving and migrant-sending states, Martin Ruhs finds that there are trade-offs in the policies of high-income countries between openness to admitting migrant workers and some of the rights granted to migrants after admission. Insisting on greater equality of rights for migrant workers can come at the price of more restrictive admission policies, especially for lower-skilled workers. Ruhs advocates the liberalization of international labor migration through temporary migration programs that protect a universal set of core rights and account for the interests of nation-states by restricting a few specific rights that create net costs for receiving countries. The Price of Rights analyzes how high-income countries restrict the rights of migrant workers as part of their labor immigration policies and discusses the implications for global debates about regulating labor migration and protecting migrants. It comprehensively looks at the tensions between human rights and citizenship rights, the agency and interests of migrants and states, and the determinants and ethics of labor immigration policy.

In 2018-19 some 12,000 people from the Pacific and Timor-Leste came to Australia with its Seasonal Worker Programme (SWP), part of a worldwide trend towards labour mobility. The ways in which Timorese workers use money earned individually within the SWP are shaped by broadly collectivist frameworks for understanding wealth and work embedded in their home communities. Drawing on fieldwork in Timor-Leste and the literature on livelihood seeking and governance there, this article shows how for most Timorese in the SWP the impact of international work is mediated by local custom.

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues and their employers.

Nearly 90 percent of residents in Dubai are foreigners with no Emirati nationality. As in many global cities, those who hold Western passports share specific advantages: prestigious careers, high salaries, and comfortable homes and lifestyles. With this book, Amélie Le Renard explores how race, gender and class backgrounds shape experiences of privilege, and investigates the processes that lead to the formation of Westerners as a social group. Westernness is more than a passport; it is also an identity that requires emotional and bodily labor. And as they work, hook up, parent, and hire domestic help, Westerners chase Dubai's promise of socioeconomic elevation for the few. Through an ethnography informed by postcolonial and feminist theory, Le Renard reveals the diverse experiences and trajectories of white and non-white, male and female Westerners to understand the shifting and contingent nature of Westernness—and also its deep connection to whiteness and heteronormativity. Western Privilege offers a singular look at the lived reality of structural racism in cities of the global South.

\"Dieser Beitrag untersucht den Erfolg von Einwanderern auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt in Abhängigkeit von deren beruflichen Tätigkeitsfeldern. Aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zeigen, dass Migranten im Vergleich zu Einheimischen eventuell dadurch benachteiligt sind, dass sie andere Aufgaben am Arbeitsplatz ausführen. Unser theoretisches Modell berücksichtigt, dass das Arbeitsangebot und damit die Anteile der Migranten mit der beruflichen Qualifikation, dem Tätigkeitsbereich und der Berufserfahrung variieren. Demzufolge unterscheiden sich die Substitutionselastizitäten einer aggregierten Produktionsfunktion für einzelne Jobzellen. Ausgehend vom 'TASKS-Ansatz' schätzen wir für den Zeitraum 1993 bis 2008 die Substitutionselastizitäten für unterschiedlich stark aggregierte CES-Produktionsfunktionen. Die Resultate verweisen auf deutliche Unterschiede in der Substituierbarkeit von Migranten und Einheimischen je nach beruflicher Qualifikation und Tätigkeitsfeld. Insbesondere interaktive und kommunikative Aufgaben erweisen sich für Migranten als Hürde für den Arbeitsmarkterfolg.\" Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1993 bis 2008. (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku). \"This paper analyses the performance of migrants on the German labour market and its dependence on the tasks performed on their jobs. Recent work suggests quantifying the imperfect substitutability relationship between migrants and natives as a measure for the hurdles migrants have to face. Our theoretical framework adopts that migrant shares vary with qualification, task categories, and experience.; Hence, substitution elasticities of an aggregate production function can be quite different regarding different job cells. Finally, we estimate elasticities of substitution for different aggregate CES-nested production functions for Germany between 1993 and 2008 using administrative data and taking into account the task approach. We find significant variation in the substitutability between migrants and natives across qualification levels and tasks. We show that especially interactive tasks seem to impose hurdles for migrants on the German labour market.\" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku). Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1993 bis 2008.

In his topical new book,Ethical Borders,Bill Ong Hing asks, why do undocumented immigrants from Mexico continue to enter the United States and, what would discourage this surreptitious traffic? An expert on immigration law and policy, Hing examines the relationship between NAFTA, globalization, and undocumented migration, and he considers the policy options for controlling immigration. He develops an ethical rationale for opening up the U.S./Mexican border, as well as improving conditions in Mexico so that its citizens would have little incentive to migrate. InEthical BordersHing insists that reforming NAFTA is vital to ameliorating much of the poverty that drives undocumented immigration and he points to the European Union's immigration and economic development policies as a model for North America. Hing considers the world-wide economic crisis and the social problems that attend labor migration into homogenous countries, arguing for a spectrum of changes, including stricter border enforcement and more effective barriers; a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants; or a guest worker program. Hing also situates NAFTA and its effects in the larger, and rapidly shifting, context of globalization-particularly the recent rise of China as the world's economic giant. Showing how NAFTA's unforeseen consequences have been detrimental to Mexico, Hing passionately argues that the United States is ethically bound to address the problems in a way that puts prosperity within the grasp of all North Americans.

This paper analyzes the impact of demographic change on the labor force in Germany. First, to account for observable trends in labor force participation a cohort-component model is applied to project the future development of the labor force. Based on this trend scenario we assess the impact of several policy options to counteract the demographic decline in labor supply. The policy options analyzed include an increase in the effective retirement age, a decline in the age of labor market entry, an increasing labor force participation of the elderly, raising the labor force participation of immigrants as well as a further increase in female participation rates. Second, the effects of a declining unemployment rate as well as the effects of an increase in the hours worked are examined, focusing on the overall annual work volume. Our results suggest that the annual work volume can be stabilized sufficiently. Therefore future productivity gains do not have to be eroded substantially in order to maintain the GDP per capita level of the base year 2010.

This paper analyzes intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants and ethnic minorities in the UK. We use a two-sample technique and utilize the British Household Panel Survey for estimating the mobility coefficient. The estimation provides the evidence of differences in generational mobility based on immigration status and ethnic origin. Earnings of the native population tend to have a strong correlation with that of their fathers, a mobility coefficient of 0.34. However, for immigrants as well as ethnic minorities, the fathers' earnings have a smaller impact on childrens' earnings with a much lower coefficient estimate.

Economic justice in an unfair world -- Fairness in trade -- Allocating aid -- Justice in migration and labor -- Harnessing investment -- Toward a level playing field : a policy agenda.

The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights is the most comprehensive migration-related treaty in international human rights law, but no major Western immigration states have ratified it. This volume provides in-depth information on the Convention and the reasons behind states' reluctance towards ratification.