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A Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia

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.authorKhoo, Siew-Ean
dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, Peter
dc.contributor.authorVoigt-Graf, Carmen
dc.contributor.authorHugo, Graeme
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-08T22:20:26Z
dc.identifier.issn0197-9183
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/31992
dc.description.abstractThe 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.publisherCenter for Migration Studies of New York Inc.
dc.sourceInternational Migration Review
dc.subjectKeywords: labor market; labor migration; migrant worker; recruitment; skilled labor; Australasia; Australia
dc.titleA Global Labor Market: Factors Motivating the Sponsorship and Temporary Migration of Skilled Workers to Australia
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume41
dc.date.issued2007
local.identifier.absfor160303 - Migration
local.identifier.ariespublicationu9406909xPUB87
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationKhoo, Siew-Ean, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationMcDonald, Peter, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationVoigt-Graf, Carmen, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.affiliationHugo, Graeme, University of Adelaide
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue2
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage480
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage510
local.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00076.x
dc.date.updated2023-05-14T08:16:50Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-34250321703
local.identifier.thomsonID000247131000008
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