Philip Martin

Merchants of Labor

Recruiters and International Labor Migration

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year. This book examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers, explaining recruitment, remuneration and retention, and showing how national borders increase recruitment costs. Tackling the often murky world of labor migration, it fills an important void in this fast-growing field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780198808022
• ISBN-10: 019880802X
• Artikelnr.: 48022778

Autorenporträt

Philip Martin is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He edits Rural Migration News, has served on several federal commissions, and testifies frequently before Congress. He is an award-winning author who works for UN agencies around the world on labor and migration issues.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Labor migration and labor markets
1: International labor migration
2: Labor markets and migration
Part II. What do workers pay?
3: Migration costs in destinations
4: Migration costs of returning workers
Part III. Regulating recruitment
5: The recruiting business
6: Regulating recruiters
7: Recruiter incentives and alternatives
8: Employers, recruiters, and workers