Migration for Employment
Bilateral Agreements at a Crossroads
This report opens with an overview of bilateral agreements and other forms of labour recruitment of foreigners in several OECD countries (Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States) as well as in the Philippines and Romania. It then has a series of chapters describing the management and implementation of these practices and analysing the impact of these agreements on labour markets, economic development and migration policies of both sending and receiving countries. It also examines the prospects for this type of migration. The Annex lists the principal agreements signed by OECD countries, by type of recruitment scheme (e.g. seasonal, contract workers, trainees and guest workers).
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Conclusions
The main aim of the Montreux Seminar was to offer participants an opportunity to exchange and obtain information on bilateral labour agreements and other forms of recruitment of foreign workers. In my view, the Seminar fully achieved its aim. Some very informative papers were drafted for this Seminar and the debates on how all the procedures operate and compare, how they are evaluated and how they are likely to...
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