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Key
Features:
• Contributions and analysis
from experts who have advised the UK's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) on
the nature and determinants of staff shortages and immigration policy
• Highlights how
demand for migrant workers can be linked to wider policies and
economic/social systems that are heavily influenced by the state, and are
outside the direct control of employers and workers
• Helps the reader
identify the key conceptual issues and questions in the debate about
shortages and immigration policy
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Who Needs Migrant Workers?
Labour
shortages, immigration, and public policy
Edited
by Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson
ISBN: 978-0-19-958059-0
Hardback, August 2010, 314 pp.
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Are migrant workers needed to
'do the jobs that locals will not do' or are they simply a more exploitable
labour force? Do they have a better 'work ethic' or are they less able to
complain? Is migrant labour the solution to 'skills shortages' or actually
part of the problem? This book provides a comprehensive framework for
analysing 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 labour. 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 labour immigration in all high-income
countries. The final chapter presents a comparative analysis of
research and policy approaches to assessing labour shortages in the UK and
the US. It examines the potential lessons of the UK's Migration Advisory
Committee (MAC) for current debates about labour shortages and immigration
reform in the US. The book will be of significant interest to policy-makers,
stakeholders, academics and students.
Review:
‘A masterful volume on the role of immigration policy in addressing current
and future labour shortages. Drawing on a stellar group of experts, it
addresses the employment of foreign workers in a wide range of industries. A
welcome compendium for academics, practitioners, and policy makers alike.’
Susan Martin, Director, Institute for the Study of International
Migration, Georgetown University
‘Ruhs and Anderson have put together a terrific team to analyse immigration
for work in the UK. This is the definitive research on the demand for migrant
workers and will inform the debate for years to come.’
David Metcalf, CBE, Emeritus Professor, London School of Economics, and
Chair of the UK’s Migration Advisory Committee (MAC)
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