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Merchants of labor : recruiters and international labor migration
"Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Merchants of labor : recruiters and international labor migration / Philip Martin |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
, 2017 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (XXI-208 p.) |
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| Résumé : | "Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they collect from migrant workers and what can be done to reduce worker-paid migration costs. Using cost data from over 3,000 workers, Merchants of Labor examines the often murky world of labor brokers, travel agents, and others who move low-skilled workers from one country to another in order to explore lower worker-paid migration costs. It explains the three core functions of labor markets-- recruitment, remuneration, and retention-- and shows how national borders increase recruitment costs. New data on what workers pay to get jobs in other countries are presented, and incentives to complement enforcement are explored as a way to induce recruiters to protect migrant workers." |
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| Bibliographie : | Bibliogr. p. [189]-200. Index |
| ISBN : | 978-0-19-880802-2 |