A Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia
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Khoo, Siew-Ean; McDonald, Peter; Voigt-Graf, Carmen; Hugo, Graeme
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The recruitment of skilled foreign workers is becoming increasingly important to many industrialized countries. This paper examines the factors motivating the sponsorship and temporary migration of skilled workers to Australia under the temporary business entry program, a new development in Australia's migration policy. The importance of labor demand in the destination country in stimulating skilled temporary migration is clearly demonstrated by the reasons given by employers in the study while...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Khoo, Siew-Ean | |
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dc.contributor.author | McDonald, Peter | |
dc.contributor.author | Voigt-Graf, Carmen | |
dc.contributor.author | Hugo, Graeme | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-08T22:20:26Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0197-9183 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31992 | |
dc.description.abstract | The recruitment of skilled foreign workers is becoming increasingly important to many industrialized countries. This paper examines the factors motivating the sponsorship and temporary migration of skilled workers to Australia under the temporary business entry program, a new development in Australia's migration policy. The importance of labor demand in the destination country in stimulating skilled temporary migration is clearly demonstrated by the reasons given by employers in the study while the reasons indicated by skilled temporary migrants for coming to work in Australia show the importance of both economic and non-economic factors in motivating skilled labor migration. | |
dc.publisher | Center for Migration Studies of New York Inc. | |
dc.source | International Migration Review | |
dc.subject | Keywords: labor market; labor migration; migrant worker; recruitment; skilled labor; Australasia; Australia | |
dc.title | A Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 41 | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 160303 - Migration | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u9406909xPUB87 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Khoo, Siew-Ean, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | McDonald, Peter, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Voigt-Graf, Carmen, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Hugo, Graeme, University of Adelaide | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 2 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 480 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 510 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00076.x | |
dc.date.updated | 2023-05-14T08:16:50Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-34250321703 | |
local.identifier.thomsonID | 000247131000008 | |
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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