Highly skilled labour mobility, skills shortages and immigration policy in Britain and Germany

2001 ◽  
pp. 85-111
Author(s):  
Stefan Kramer ◽  
J. R. Shackleton
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Labour Mobility ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Mobility Skills ◽  
Skills Shortages

scholarly journals Otherness in the Workplace among Highly Skilled Labour Migrants: Swedes in Germany and the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110244
Author(s):  
Ylva Wallinder
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Labour Mobility ◽  
Sociology Of Work ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Self Image ◽  
European Single Market ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
The Uk ◽  
University Degree

The conditions for intra-European labour mobility have changed significantly during recent decades, mainly due to the European Single Market. Despite this, internationally mobile and highly skilled intra-EU migrants from West to West have not received enough attention in the sociology of work. The present article focuses on highly skilled labour migrants with a university degree from Sweden, currently working in Germany or the UK. Swedish migrants feel they challenge specific norms related to hierarchies in the workplace, behaving according to their own ‘taken-for-granted’ norms concerning the ways in which work is organized and tasks are assigned. Their privileged position as educated Swedish migrants is an important part of their self-image and enables them to challenge norms. Furthermore, they also deal with self-perceived otherness while making sense of their experiences of contradictions and norm-breaking. The findings highlight their self-definitions, according to which they are simultaneously (by default) insiders and/or (superior) outsiders.

Color and Skill: British Immigration, 1955–1968

1968 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Oscar Gish
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Administrative Framework ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
British People

The factors conditioning immigration to the United Kingdom are analyzed in this article with the view to understand British immigration policy. The volume and place of origin of immigrants, the attitudes held toward immigrants by the British people, the legal and administrative framework placed around immigration, the emigration of highly skilled people from the United Kingdom in more recent years, all these aspects—the author shows—have contributed to the formulation of past governmental decisions and are likely to determine the volume and quality of future British immigration.

Globalization, competitiveness and the supply of highly skilled labour in civil aerospace

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-295
Author(s):  
Desmond Hickie ◽  
Neil Jones ◽  
Florian Schloderer
Keyword(s):  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Highly Skilled

scholarly journals The EU Policy to Attract Highly Skilled Workers: The Status of Implementation of the Blue Card Directive

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Marco Mazzeschi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Current State ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
The Status ◽  
Skills Shortages ◽  
Eu Commission ◽  
The Eu

<p>A worldwide shortage of about 38-40 million highly skilled workers is forecast by 2020. Many countries are implementing policies to attract workers with special skills and knowledge. What is the European Union doing to face this challenge? In 2009 the EU adopted the so called Blue Card Directive (n. 2009/50) to attract highly qualified workers from abroad, address labour and skills shortages and strengthen the EU’s competitiveness and economic growth. The Directive was implemented by most EU countries during 2012 but has proven to be insufficiently attractive and underused, with only a limited number of Blue Cards issued. For these reasons, the EU Commission has announced some proposed changes to the Blue Card Directive. The specific objectives are, amongst other things, to increase the numbers of third-country highly skilled workers immigrating to the EU and simplify and harmonise admission procedures for third-country highly skilled workers.</p><p>The article also outlines a summary of the current state of implementation of the Directive in the following countries: Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium and The Netherlands.</p>

High-Skilled Migration

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Migration ◽  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Highly Skilled ◽  
Skilled Migrant

Over the past decades an increasing number of countries have developed a growing interest in attracting and retaining skilled and highly skilled migrant workers. This chapter provides an introduction into the nature and dynamics of the global skill market and the role of states and state policies in international migration processes of highly skilled workers. This introduction also outlines the subsequent chapters of this volume which address questions regarding (i) the nature and scope of high-skilled migration and ‘immigration policy packages’ states implement to attract and select high-skilled migrants; (ii) the rationales and determinants of high-skilled migration policies evolving over time and space; (iii) the extent to which policies and other drivers affect high-skilled migration processes in general, and international migration of students, scientists, and health professionals in particular.

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