Effects and regulation of international labour migration

FEATURES OF DEMAND ON FOREIGN LABOUR

The purpose of the international movement of labour is the desire to improve the material condition, which remains unchanged, as a rule, in the long historical perspective. As to forms of migration, they change depending on many circumstances. The current migration has become of temporary nature: migrants are mostly going to return home after a period of time. Thus, the hallmark of modern labour migration is its rotational nature.

Rotation is speeded up and slowed down. Accelerated rotation (up to three years) gets all carefully selected and recruited foreign labour; slow rotation lasts longer and covers the employees chosen in the process of production. They tend to have no more than 30% of the total number of foreign workers. It is necessary to pay attention to such two features as increased time spent by migrants in host countries and strengthening of their commitment to naturalization, which happens only with a part of the immigrants.

It is necessary disclose the reasons that led in the second half of the twentieth century to the growing demand in developed countries on highly qualified personnel. This trend is further enhanced in the last decade. The transformation of the leaders of the world economy into post-industrialized model converts the basic factors of social progress, such as knowledge, education, intelligence, innovative nature of production management. As a result of the formation of an increased demand on personnel with education a new type of labour migration, called "brain-drain" has formed.

It is important to understand the fundamental difference in the nature of this particular type of migration, because it covers people who have jobs and some level of security at home. The main motivation to move to other countries for them, on one hand, is inadequate conditions for research in different countries, the lack of prospects for professional growth at home, and on the other - significant differences in status and reward of scientists, inventors, designers, art workers and prestige of their work.

Social and economic impacts occur with respect to both countries of emigration and immigration. Analysts estimate annual net migration of over 1 million people, i.e. in host countries an average of 1more million people coming than leaving.

Among the countries main consumers of foreign labour should are the United States, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, France, England, Japan, South Africa, Israel, Malaysia, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Venezuela and others.

The positive effects of mass labour immigration into these countries include:

• softening of the labour market by filling certain specific niches in it;

• savings in manpower training, attracting foreign manufacturing experience;

• pressure on wages in the country and its general lowering.

Regarding negative effects, they lie in braking education and qualification of personnel in those areas and sectors of production, which are dominated by foreign labour, problems of social and psychological adaptation of immigrants, the outflow of currency abroad and others.

For exporting countries, among which the most active are Mexico, Greece, Italy, Turkey, the countries of the Maghreb, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Africa, the Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and others, positive results of emigration is partial solution to the problem of unemployment, improvement of professional skills of immigrants, a substantial foreign exchange earnings in the form of remittances, which are the source of investment into the national economy.

Forms and methods of regulating international exchange of labour, which is used in modern practice. The subjects of control and regulation are social, age and skill composition of migrants, the level of exit and entry of foreign workers. Functions of interstate and intrastate distribution of labour, establishing the scope and structure of migration flows are performed by national Ministries of Labour, Interior and Foreign Affairs, as well as specially created national and international bodies.

It is necessary to note the role and functions of regional and supranational regulatory institutions. Among them a leading position occupied by the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The main function of these institutions is to protect the socio-economic and legal rights of migrant workers, to prevent discrimination in their national, religious and ethnic basis and in rewarding, to promote employment and social adaptation of immigrants, providing them with training, coordination of efforts of various states aimed to restrict illegal immigration and others.

As to methods of regulating emigration and immigration of workers, they are divided into economic and administratively legal. Active processes in the field of international migration stimulate the design and application of an active state migration policy. Its purposes, features and leverages are political and legal instruments, administrative, organizational and financial measures and informational provision of the policy. The most difficult problem of migration policy is a mechanism of its effective implementation, the effectiveness of which depends primarily on improving the economic situation in the country, the welfare of its citizens, and increase of social protection of population.

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