A Comparison of Skilled Migration Policy: Australia, Canada and New Zealand

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesleyanne Hawthorne
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Skilled Migration

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Business Climate ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Structural Drivers ◽  
Political Structures

This volume highlights the challenges of contemporary policymaking and scholarship on high-skilled migration. Both areas often focus rather narrowly on migration policy without considering systematically and rigorously other economic, social, and political drivers of migration. These structural drivers are often equally or sometimes even more important than migration policies per se. To be successful in recruiting on the global skill market, countries have to implement coherent whole-of-government immigration policy packages which are to be embedded in a country’s broader economic, social, and political structures and the broader context of international migration processes and dynamics. Societies and economies that are able to create a welcoming environment for people, attractive professional conditions for workers, and a business climate for employers are likely to succeed in attracting and recruiting skilled workers that are in demand. The chapter concludes with some proposals aimed at improving the efficiency of the global skill market.

High-Skilled Migration and the Limits of Migration Policies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Skeldon
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
High Turnover ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
And Training

After a consideration of who the skilled are, this chapter pursues four main themes. First, direct policies to attract skilled migrants are secondary to indirect policies designed to establish the industries and services that will lead to the employment of the skilled. Second, direct policies to attract the skilled need to be integrated into wider policies that see the immigration of the less skilled also to be important. Third, attempts to retain the skilled need to be framed in the context of a high turnover of the skilled, a turnover facilitated by the nature of the channels through which they move. Fourth, a consideration of the global production of the skilled through education and training and how that impacts on the flows. These four themes are closely interrelated and provide a basis for a broader interpretation of skilled migration policy.

scholarly journals “Saber alemán”: Inserción de migración calificada mexicana en el mercado laboral de Berlín.

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Javier Peña Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Creative Class ◽  
Political Integration ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
German Culture ◽  
German State ◽  
Creative Capital

Resumen: En nuestra investigación usamos el concepto de capital creativo como un instrumento teórico integrador de actividades, perfiles y movilidad de un tipo de migración laboral que llamamos clase creativa. Por medio de un enfoque cualitativo basado en entrevistas semi-estructuradas, observación de campo y análisis de discurso, nos adentramos en las experiencias de integración laboral de migrantes mexicanos de la clase creativa en el mercado laboral de Berlín. Encontramos que su inserción laboral y su “valor” para la economía receptora están condicionados por su capacidad de aprender y ajustar sus cualificaciones y estilo de vida a una “cultura común alemana”. Llamamos a este aprendizaje “saber alemán”. Este saber alemán refleja la orientación de la política migratoria del Estado alemán, la cual ponen a la asimilación cultural como un requisito para la integración económica y política. Abstract: We take the concept of creative capital to identify and analyze a type of skilled migration known as creative class. We employ qualitative research based on interviews to explore the economic insertion of Mexican creative class in Berlin, Germany. We found that the economic insertion of this type of skilled migrants as well as their economic “value” for the receiving economy are conditioned to their ability to learn and adjust their skills and lifestyle to a “common German culture”. We identify this learning process as “understand German”. This process reflects the orientation of the migration policy of the German State in terms of requesting cultural assimilation as a requisite for economic and political integration.

“Picking Winners”: The Recent Transformation of Australia's Skilled Migration Policy

2005 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 663-696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesleyanne Hawthorne
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
English Language ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Conservative Government ◽  
Policy Transformation ◽  
Major Review ◽  
Source Countries

From 1980 to 1996, Australian researchers identified consistently inferior labor market outcomes for professionals from non-English-speaking background source countries. In 1997, the incoming conservative government initiated a major review of Australia's skilled migration program, based on a determination to ‘select for success' among applicants. Subsequent initiatives included mandatory English language testing, rigorous qualifications screening, incentives for international students to migrate, and abolition of income support in the first two years post-arrival. This article provides a detailed analysis of factors leading to this policy transformation. Labor market outcomes for 2001 are defined, including a halving of unemployment among recently arrived migrants.

High skilled migration through the lens of policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-306
Author(s):  
Christopher R Parsons ◽  
Sebastien Rojon ◽  
Lena Rose ◽  
Farhan Samanani
Keyword(s):  
International Comparisons ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Migration Flow ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
To Come ◽  
High Skill

Abstract High skilled migrants and the policies designed to attract and select such individuals are widely championed. In formulating and evaluating such policies, however, policy makers and academics alike face significant challenges, since, from the perspective of policy, what it means to be high skilled remains a fluid concept. The resulting ambiguity stymies meaningful international comparisons of the mobility of skills, undermines the design and evaluation of immigration policies and hinders the measurement of human capital. In this paper, we adopt an inductive approach to examine how high skilled migrants are classified based upon states’ unilateral immigration policies, thereby highlighting the difficulties of comparing high skilled policies across countries. We further elucidate the challenges in measuring the outcomes of high skilled migration policies that arise due to differing national priorities in recording high skilled migrants. We conclude by making a number of policy recommendations, which if enacted, would bring clarity to scholars and policy makers alike in terms of being able to meaningfully compare the composition, and assess the efficacy of, high skilled migration policies across countries. In doing so we introduce three datasets comprising: harmonised high skill migration flow data, skilled occupational concordances and high skilled unilateral and bilateral migration policy data, which undergird our analysis and that can be built upon in years to come.

scholarly journals Skilled Migration, Knowledge Transfer and Development: The Case of the Highly Skilled Filipino Migrants in New Zealand and Australia

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila V. Siar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Knowledge Transfers ◽  
Filipino Migrants

This paper provides evidence that highly skilled migrants continue to remain connected with and deeply committed to their home country. These connections challenge the notion of knowledge and skills loss from high-skilled migration. Highly skilled migrants are also involved in remittance giving, which, although of the noneconomic type, offers new possibilities for building wealth. These are the so-called ‘knowledge transfers’ which consist of the flows of knowledge, skills and ideas to the home country. This paper analyses these knowledge transfers through the highly skilled Filipino migrants in New Zealand and Australia.

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