Skilled Labour and Land

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
John Craven
Keyword(s):  
Skilled Labour

Transiting into Singaporean identity: Immigration and naturalisation policy

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathews Mathew ◽  
Debbie Soon
Keyword(s):  
Manpower Planning ◽  
The State ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Optimal Composition ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Planning Policy ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Ideal

Debates in Singapore about immigration and naturalisation policy have escalated substantially since 2008 when the government allowed an unprecedentedly large number of immigrants into the country. This essay will discuss immigration and naturalisation policy in Singapore and the tensions that have been evoked, and how these policies are a key tool in regulating the optimal composition and size of the population for the state’s imperatives. It will demonstrate that although the state has, as part of its broader economic and manpower planning policy to import labour for economic objectives, it seeks to retain only skilled labour with an exclusive form of citizenship.  Even as the Singapore state has made its form of citizenship even more exclusive by reducing the benefits that non-citizens receive, its programmes for naturalising those who make the cut to become citizens which include the recently created Singapore Citizenship Journey (SCJ) is by no means burdensome from a comparative perspective. This paper examines policy discourse and the key symbols and narratives provided at naturalisation events and demonstrates how these are used to evoke the sense of the ideal citizen among new Singaporeans. 

Migration trajectories of seafarers during the transition from sail to steam: Change and continuity in Antwerp, 1850-1900

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 616-635
Author(s):  
Kristof Loockx
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
The Creation

This article examines the migration trajectories of seafarers who worked on Belgian merchant vessels departing from the port of Antwerp during the second half of the nineteenth century. Based on the Antwerp seamen’s registry, which recorded information on voyages of seafarers on Belgian merchant vessels departing from Belgium’s main commercial port, this article shows that Antwerp’s maritime recruitment area vastly expanded with the advent of steam. The proportion of low-skilled seafarers who originated from inland areas increased as a result of the creation of new departments aboard ship and the emergence of ocean liners. However, established migration fields remained important for the supply of skilled labour in deck departments, which indicates that there was also continuity. The findings suggest that each department had its own dynamics and therefore old and new patterns co-evolved during a period of transition.

Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanvedes Daovisan ◽  
Pimporn Phukrongpet ◽  
Thanapauge Chamaratana
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Lao Pdr ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Migration Policies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Practical Implications

PurposeThere is an ongoing debate in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2015 concerning the skilled labour migration policy regimes. This review aims to systematise the free flow of skilled labour migration policies in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) countries.Design/methodology/approachThis review utilised a qualitative systematic in peer-reviewed journals for the period 2015–2019. The initial search identified 28,874 articles. Of those articles, 10,612 articles were screened, 738 articles were checked, 150 articles were selected and 18 articles met the criteria. Data were analysed using thematic synthesis (e.g. coding, categorisation, synthesis and summarisation).FindingsThe review suggested that free movement from CLMV countries is the cause of the mass exodus of unskilled migration to high-income countries. The review found that the free flow of migration policy in the AEC Blueprint 2015 is associated with illegal, unauthorised and unskilled workers in the host country.Research limitations/implicationsA systematic review is qualitative in nature, in which the relevant existing literature lacks some empirical studies, and the results must be generalisable.Practical implicationsThe current systematic review provides a visual diagram for practical implications to isolate undocumented, illegal, unpermitted and unskilled migrant workers and further reduce the mass exodus of migration from CLMV countries.Originality/valueTo the authors' knowledge, this is the first review to extend the literature to the macro-level determinants of free flow of skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries. The present review seeks to inform the policy responses of moving freely between sending and receiving countries.

High and Low-Skilled Labour in a Macroeconometric Model of the Netherlands

1998 ◽  
pp. 243-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. P. Broer ◽  
D. A. G. Draper ◽  
A. Houweling ◽  
F. H. Huizinga ◽  
P. A. de Jongh
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Macroeconometric Model

scholarly journals AKUNTAN DAN ERA KETERBUKAAN ARUS LALU LINTAS JASA

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Vidia Gati
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Mutual Recognition Agreement

Profesi akuntan adalah salah satu profesi yang mendapatkan sertifikasi dari negara negara ASEAN berdasarkan Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA sehingga nantinya akan memudahkan lintas profesi diantara Negara tersebut. Adanya gap antara jumlah akuntan yang tersedia dan yang dibutuhkan akan menimbulkan persoalan yaitu serbuan tenaga kerja asing di masa arus lalu lintas jasa benar benar terbuka. Ikatan Akuntan Indonesia sudah melakukan berbagai aktifitas untuk mempersiapkan masa tersebut, namun hendaknya perhitungan realistis perlu dikedepankan mengingat struktur sumber daya manusia di Indonesia didominasi oleh low skilled labour sehingga opsi menunda pemberlakuannya mungkin dapat diperhitungkan untuk memberi kesempatan anak bangsa mencapai posisi strategis daripada posisi sebagai buruh di negeri sendiri.

scholarly journals Os novos conteúdos da regionalização: lugares modernizados e lugares letárgicos no planalto nordpatagónico argentino

Finisterra ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (58) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Laura Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Industrial Transformation ◽  
Sheep Breeding ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Rio Negro ◽  
Industrialization Process ◽  
Modernization Process ◽  
Modern Breeding ◽  
Breeding Techniques

MODERN AND LETHARGIC PLACES IN THE NORTHPATAGONIC PLATEAU - The southern region, an area of the northpatagonic plateau (Rio Negro, Argentina) is a vast sheep breeding region. Sheep breeding and agriculture were introduced at the end of the last century in an attempt to enlarge the production of argentinean beef, cereals and wool.Since the 1940s the industrialization process has been changing many areas of the country, but the northpatagonic region continued to export basic wool (without any kind of industrial transformation).However, since the 1980s selective modernization has begun to reach the large isolated farms, helping to improve ties with distant places. This modernization has resulted in new modern breeding techniques and in the use of skilled labour. This modernization programme of change has come from both international and national centers of decision and research, and also from a few technically specialised provincial centres.The modernization process has been confined to the larger farms and has improved "vertival" relations, which have lead to skilled labour moving into the region.On the other hand, the lathargic places are not reached by the technical and scientific modernization, although information about the new consumer's patterns is received; as a result there is an increase of the population exodus to the larger modern urban centres of the province. Nowadays, the region comprises a network of modern progressive centres, as well as a mosaic of lethargic towns and rural areas.

scholarly journals EFISIENSI DAN DAYA SAING FREE FLOW OF SKILLED LABOUR DALAM PERSPEKTIF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW: TELAAH PERATURAN PRESIDEN NOMOR 20 TAHUN 2018

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Fajar Sugianto ◽  
Syofyan Hadi
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Free Flow ◽  
Economic Analysis Of Law ◽  
Skilled Labour

<p>Indonesia telah melakukan upaya-upaya mempersiapkan kebijakan serta mewujudkan regulasi khususnya tentang Tenaga Kerja Asing (TKA).Tujuan utama dari upaya-upaya ini selain turut serta dalam arus bebas tenaga kerja terampil, juga menjamin hak-hak warga Negara agar tetap mendapatkan pekerjaan dan kelayakan kehidupan. Indonesia juga berkewajiban memfasilitasi pergerakan tenaga kerja terampil. Terkait hal tersebut, pemberlakuan Perpres Nomor 20 Tahun 2018 tentang Penggunaan Tenaga Kerja Asing perlu ditelaah sejauh mana efisiensi pemberlakuan dan ketepatan substansi pengaturannya? Metode penelitian yang digunakan ialah Economic Analysis of Law sebagai analisis hukum dengan menggunakan bantuan ilmu ekonomi, dalam hal ini konsep efisiensi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan masih terdapat banyak pengaturan yang inefisien dalam Peraturan Presiden ini seperti belum menekankan kepada daya saing, pencegahan kegagalan alih teknologi dan keahlian, belum mempromosikan kepentingan publik serta belum mampu mewajibkan informasi asimetris karena tidak melibatkan Tenaga Kerja Indonesia untuk memastikan kebutuhan riil penggunaan Tenaga Kerja Asing. Namun Peraturan Presiden ini sudah cukup efisien dalam hal pemangkasan birokrasi. Ke depannya, perlu dikembalikan lagi hakikat efisiensi baik dalam aspek birokrasi maupun ketepatan sasaran penggunaan TKA berdasarkan perbedaan keterampilan dan keahlian.</p>

African economies face rising risks from reshoring

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chains ◽  
Multinational Firms ◽  
Wage Differentials ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Skilled Labour ◽  
Near Shore ◽  
The Cost

Significance As the need for cheap and low-skilled labour falls, wage differentials between Africa and other regions will cease to be a major draw for multinational firms and foreign investors, who may seek to re-shore or near-shore operations, triggering job losses and dampening new job creation. Impacts Job losses threaten to exacerbate youth unemployment and discontent in a continent where 70% of the population is under 30. The pandemic has increased the cost and risks of international supply chains. Africa’s tech sector will expand but its spread is regionally uneven and its impact on job creation will be limited for now.

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