Who needs migrant workers?
Subtitle: labour shortages, immigration, and public policy
By: edited by Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780199580590
Subjects: Foreign workers; Labor mobility; Government policy; Labor supply
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Martin Ruhns and Bridget Anderson; title: Migrant workers: who needs them?  A framework for the analysis of staff shortages, immigration, and public policy  -- Bridget Anderson and Martin Ruhs; title: Changing shares of migrant labour in different sectors and occupations in the UK economy: an overview  -- Vanna Aldin, Dan James, and Jonathan Wadsworth; title: Achieving a self-sufficient workforce? The utilization of migrant labour in healthcare  -- Stephen Bach; title: Competing with myths: migrant labour in social care  -- Jo Moriarty; title: Use of migrant labour in the hospitality sector: current and future implications  -- Rosemary Lucas and Steve Mansfield; title: UK food businesses' reliance on low-wage migrant labour: a case of choice or constraint?  -- Andrew Geddes and Sam Scott; title: Dynamics of migrant employment in construction: can supply of skilled labour ever match demand?  -- Paul Chan, Linda Clarke, and Andrew Dainty; title: Immigration and the UK labour market in financial services: a case of conflicting policy challenges?  -- Andrew Jones; title: Need for migrant labour? UK-US Comparisons -- Philip Martin.