Regulating labour immigration: Enduring challenges and new questions - Martin Ruhs

Presentación de PowerPoint Regulating labour immigration: Enduring challenges and new questions Martin Ruhs Migration Policy Centre (MPC) European University Institute (EUI) 7 Nov 2022 Overview • What are the goals? In whose interests ? • Preferential access to the national/local labour market • Measuring skills and shortages • Responding to shortages: Is immigration the ‘best’ answer? • Temporary. [...] UK SOURCE: ublications/skilled-worker-visa- shortage-occupations/skilled- worker-visa-shortage-occupations 5 The problem with ‘skills’ and ‘shortages’ Skills: • Conceptually and empirically ambiguous • Credentialised vs non-credentialised; exp. [...] automation • Relocate production to countries with lower labour costs • Redirect business toward less labour-intensive goods/services • Employ more migrant workers Employers don’t make these decisions in a ‘vacuum’: • Key role of institutional framework and wider public policies 7 Temporary or permanent ? What rights for migrant workers? Key ethical dilemma between global and domestic justice (Bau. [...] (2018) “Labor immigration policies in high-income countries: Variations across political regimes and varieties of capitalism”, Journal of Legal Studies 47 (S1): S89-S127 • Ruhs, M (2014) “Immigration and Labour Market Protectionism: Protecting Local Workers' Preferential Access to the National Labour Market”, in Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour Law, edited by C. [...] UK The problem with ‘skills’ and ‘shortages’ Responding to ‘skills needs’ and ‘shortages’:Key role of system effects Temporary or permanent ?What rights for migrant workers? Systemic resilience: Policy implications? References Regulating labour immigration: Enduring challenges and new questions.