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Welcome to work?: legal migration pathways for low-skilled workers
Andrea Riester,Kathleen Newland +1 more
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In countries whose native-born workforce has become ever more educated and ever more concentrated in medium and high-skilled industries, many low-wage jobs that cannot be outsourced or automated as discussed by the authors are filled by immigrants.Abstract:
In countries whose native-born workforce has become ever more educated and ever more concentrated in mediumand high-skilled industries, many low-wage jobs that cannot be outsourced or automated—such as child and elder care, agriculture, and construction—are filled by immigrants. Yet legal migration pathways are most readily available not to workers who might fill such positions, but to highly skilled professionals with formal qualification. Where legal pathways for low-skilled migrants are too narrow to meet demand, employers and foreign-born workers alike often look to illegal migration to bridge the gap.read more
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