Who needs migrant workers? : labour shortages, immigration, and public policy

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Author:

Ruhs, Martin.

ISBN:

9780199580590

9780199653614

Publication Information:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

xvi, 335 s. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Introduction / Martin Ruhns and Bridget Anderson -- Migrant workers: who needs them? -- A framework for the analysis of staff shortages, immigration, and public policy / Bridget Anderson and Martin Ruhs -- Changing shares of migrant labour in different sectors and occupations in the UK economy: an overview / Vanna Aldin, Dan James, and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Achieving a self-sufficient workforce? -- The utilization of migrant labour in healthcare / Stephen Bach -- Competing with myths: migrant labour in social care / Jo Moriarty -- Use of migrant labour in the hospitality sector: current and future implications / Rosemary Lucas and Steve Mansfield -- UK food businesses' reliance on low-wage migrant labour: a case of choice or constraint? / Andrew Geddes and Sam Scott -- Dynamics of migrant employment in construction: can supply of skilled labour ever match demand? / Paul Chan, Linda Clarke, and Andrew Dainty -- Immigration and the UK labour market in financial services: a case of conflicting policy challenges? / Andrew Jones -- Need for migrant labour? -- UK-US Comparisons / Philip Martin.

Subject Term:

Foreign workers -- Great Britain.

Foreign workers -- Government policy -- Great Britain.

Labor supply -- Great Britain.

Labor mobility -- Great Britain.

Added Author:

Ruhs, Martin.

Anderson, Bridget (Sociologist)

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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.