International Labour Migration

Foreign Workers and Public Policy

D. Bartram

• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Año: 2005
• ISBN:
  9780230508170
• Categoría: Social Sciences
• Categoría: Sociology

Studies of international labour migration typically assume that foreign labour is a universal feature of wealthy economies. Exploitation of foreign workers can contribute significantly to employers' profits. However, some wealthy societies do not import workers on a large scale, despite employers' pressures. Using Israel and Japan as empirical cases, this comparative-historical work investigates why some governments allow employers relatively free access to foreign labour, while others require alternative responses to labour shortages. A focus on variation leads to an innovative and insightful argument to explain international labour migration.