Migration for Employment [electronic resource]: Bilateral Agreements at a Crossroads /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Federal Office of Immigration, Integration and Emigration.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2004.
This report opens with an overview of bilateral agreements and other forms of labour recruitment of foreigners in several OECD countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States) as well as in the Philippines and Romania.  It then has a series of chapters describing the management and implementation of these practices and analysing the impact of these agreements on labour markets, economic development and migration policies of both sending and receiving countries.  It also examines the prospects for this type of migration. The Annex lists the principal agreements signed by OECD countries, by type of recruitment scheme (e.g. seasonal, contract workers, trainees and guest workers).
Description based upon print version of record.
Recruitment of Foreign Labour in Germany and Switzerland -- Labour Market Measures Related to Foreign Employment in Ireland -- Labour Recruitment for Skill Shortages int he United Kingdom -- Annex 1A -- Conclusions -- Recruitment of Nurses in Romania by the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia Region in Italy -- Seasonal Labour Migration in the Light of the German-Polish Bilateral Agreement -- Fighting for the Rights of Migrant Workers -- Principal Labour Migration Schemes in the United Kingdom -- Labour Migration to the United States -- Employment of Foreigners in and from the Czech Republic -- Assessment and Evaluation of Bilateral Labour Agreements Signed by Romania -- Annex 2A -- From Labour Emigration to Labour Recruitment -- Bilateral Labour Agreements Concluded by France -- Migration for Employment Policy in Switzerland -- Executive Summary.
This report opens with an overview of bilateral agreements and other forms of labour recruitment of foreigners in several OECD countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States) as well as in the Philippines and Romania.  It then has a series of chapters describing the management and implementation of these practices and analysing the impact of these agreements on labour markets, economic development and migration policies of both sending and receiving countries.  It also examines the prospects for this type of migration. The Annex lists the principal agreements signed by OECD countries, by type of recruitment scheme (e.g. seasonal, contract workers, trainees and guest workers).
Migrant labor