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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Assessment and Evaluation of Bilateral Labour Agreements Signed by Romania
Ten years after the raising of the iron curtain, the barrier between the western world and the former “popular democracies” appeared to have been pushed back to the borders of Romania. The impression that this situation was at a standstill began to fade with the launch of negotiations on Romania’s accession to the European Union (EU) in February 2000 and the right of Romanians to move freely within the Schengen area ...
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