Highly Skilled Migration: Concept and Definitions

Weinar, Agnieszka; Koppenfels, Amanda Klekowski von

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“…The basic concept is operationalised on a person with tertiary (university-level) education (Skeldon, 2018), employability skills (Thondhlana et al , 2016) and international labour market skills (Ackers, 2005). Weinar and Koppenfels (2020) recently conceptualised the meaning of a highly skilled migrant, work permit and job-specific match. We conceptualised the migration policies (e.g.…”

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Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

Daovisan

Phukrongpet

Chamaratana

2021

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PurposeThere is an ongoing debate in the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) Blueprint 2015 concerning the skilled labour migration policy regimes. This review aims to systematise the free flow of skilled labour migration policies in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) countries.Design/methodology/approachThis review utilised a qualitative systematic in peer-reviewed journals for the period 2015–2019. The initial search identified 28,874 articles. Of those articles, 10,612 articles were screened, 738 articles were checked, 150 articles were selected and 18 articles met the criteria. Data were analysed using thematic synthesis (e.g. coding, categorisation, synthesis and summarisation).FindingsThe review suggested that free movement from CLMV countries is the cause of the mass exodus of unskilled migration to high-income countries. The review found that the free flow of migration policy in the AEC Blueprint 2015 is associated with illegal, unauthorised and unskilled workers in the host country.Research limitations/implicationsA systematic review is qualitative in nature, in which the relevant existing literature lacks some empirical studies, and the results must be generalisable.Practical implicationsThe current systematic review provides a visual diagram for practical implications to isolate undocumented, illegal, unpermitted and unskilled migrant workers and further reduce the mass exodus of migration from CLMV countries.Originality/valueTo the authors' knowledge, this is the first review to extend the literature to the macro-level determinants of free flow of skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries. The present review seeks to inform the policy responses of moving freely between sending and receiving countries.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

Daovisan

Phukrongpet

Chamaratana

2021

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“…Assume there is no trade between countries. 8 A country receives immigrants if it has a higher ratio of physical capital to labor, which implies a higher wage rate. Immigrants are assumed to bring no physical capital with them, but they do bring human capital and will bring more human capital if the ratio of physical capital to human capital is high.…”

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The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth

Friedberg¹,

Hunt²

2018

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the New Immigration

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I mmigration is a contentious issue in the industrialized nations of the world. This is true not merely in traditional receiving countries, such as the United States, Canada and Australia, but in recent decades also in Europe, which historically experienced net emigration. In Europe, for example, support has risen in recent years for virulently anti-immigrant political parties, such as the National Front in France, the National Alliance in Italy, and the Republikaner in Germany. The debate has a particularly interesting twist in those countries most of whose residents are themselves descendants of immigrants. The inscription on the Statue of Liberty exhorts the world to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. .. ." Yet there has always been a tension between this open-door philosophy and fear of the economic and social impact of the next wave of immigrants. Many of the key issues in the debate on immigration policy are economic. Most attention has been paid to the potential adverse effect on the labor market outcomes of native-born workers: immigrants may compete with native-born workers in the labor market, displacing them in employment or bidding down wages. Less attention has been devoted to the possible benefits of immigration. Immigrants may complement some native factors in production, which would lead to these factors benefiting from immigration, and overall welfare may rise. Another question less commonly asked is how immigration influences growth in per capita income. Cases in which it would be interesting to understand this link include the role of immigration in creating the large internal American

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“…Studies on highly skilled migrants primarily concentrate on those individuals crossing nation‐state borders, namely, international migrants (Weinar & Klekowski von Koppenfels, 2020). Within this group, North–North migration and South–North migration are the most prominent patterns.…”

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Social networks and drivers of highly skilled migration: The case of Shenzhen City in China

Gong

Sun

Xuan³

2023

Population Space and Place

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In China, the number of highly skilled domestic migrants has been growing significantly. Many highly skilled personnel have migrated to megacities located in eastern China. Through semistructured interviews with 54 highly skilled migrants in the city of Shenzhen, we find that economic incentives, urban amenities, preferential policies and social networks act as drivers for their migration. Because the role of social networks has been overlooked in the existing literature, we focus on this particular driver of migration. The desire to be physically embedded in social networks has driven migrants to move to Shenzhen: they cite proximity to parents, partners and former schoolmates as motivating factors. Such embeddedness provides them with a sense of ‘social affiliation’. While previous research has highlighted the role of migrants' social capital, we suggest that highly skilled migrants do not necessarily rely on this resource. Instead, we focus on what we call ‘migration for social affiliation’, and offer a novel angle on the precise role of migrants' social networks.

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Highly Skilled Migration: Concept and Definitions

Abstract: This Chapter discusses a variety of definitions of highly skilled migration and highly skilled migrants. We address a number of inconsistencies in the definitions and conceptual frameworks which are used, and present critical views of these conceptualisations

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Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

Rethinking free skilled labour migration policies in CLMV countries: a qualitative systematic review

The Impact of Immigrants on Host Country Wages, Employment and Growth

Social networks and drivers of highly skilled migration: The case of Shenzhen City in China

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