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Close to slavery: guestworker programs in the United States
Southern Poverty Law Center, 2007This paper discusses the exploitation faced by ‘guestworkers’ in the United States. The paper argues that the rights of guestwokers – temporary workers from largely Latin American countries, particularly Mexico - are not adequately protected.Unlike U.S.DocumentImpact of remittances on poverty and financial development in Sub-Saharan Africa
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2007The flow of remittances into developing countries is attracting increasing attention.Document“Keep your head down”: unprotected migrants in South Africa
Human Rights Watch, 2007This report documents the human rights abuses encountered by migrant workers in South Africa.DocumentPaying for health care migration: the case for compensation
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Thousands of health care professionals leave sub-Saharan Africa each year to work in the UK. This flow of skilled workers creates a subsidy to the UK health services that leaves African health services understaffed and unable to deliver effective health care. Should the UK be obliged to pay compensation for the healthcare professionals that it takes from Africa?DocumentMaking the connections between diasporas and development
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Policymakers now recognise that migration can stimulate development in countries of origin. European development agencies have sought to ‘mobilise’ diaspora organisations. They need, however, to realise that migrants are natural development agents and should be helped rather than told how to achieve development.DocumentSocial connections help women migrants feel settled in the UK
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007The scale of international female migration is increasing. The UK receives about 130,000 immigrants every year; this is likely to continue. It is therefore important to understand what makes women migrants feel happy and settled in the UK. Social connections and good local government services can play a key role.DocumentAgeing population requires pension reform in Viet Nam
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2007Viet Nam is currently a ‘young’ economy, with just nine percent of the population over the age of 60 years and a median age of 25 years. But life expectancy is increasing and fertility rates are decreasing. The elderly will make up more than a quarter of the population by 2050.DocumentMigration, investment and trade: substitutes or complements?
European Development Research Network, 2006This paper examines two aspects of the relationship between migration, investment and trade (MIT): the impact of policy change in one MIT variable on the other MIT variables the MIT relationship under policy changes and economic shocks, including trade and migration costs, uncertainty, income taxes, government and expenditures.The MIT relationship is examined separately for skDocumentBrain drain and inequality across nations
European Development Research Network, 2006This paper reviews existing literature on brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. Although the brain drain is a major source of concern for origin countries, the author argues that it is more than likely that skilled migration induces some positive effects on developing countries through e.g.DocumentMigration and remittances: the impact on the countries of origin
European Development Research Network, 2006This paper argues that: migration is typically associated with a welfare loss in sending countries unless remittances are sufficiently high remittances are a declining function of the skilled composition of the migrant labour force, suggesting that the negative impact from the brain drain may not be compensated by a larger flow of remittances remittances contribute positively to grPages