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  title info:
    title: Merchants of labor
    sub title: recruiters and international labor migration
  name:
    name part: Martin, Philip L.
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2017
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxi, 208 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Some 10 million migrant workers cross national borders each year and, if they pay an average $1,000 to recruiters, moving workers over borders is a $10 billion a year business. Merchants of Labor examines the businesses that move low-skilled workers over national borders, asking how much they collect from migrant workers and what can be done to reduce worker-paid migration costs. For-profit recruiters are likely to be an enduring feature of international labor migration, which makes developing tools to improve the management of their activities ever more crucial. The UN recognized in the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 the need to measure what workers pay to get jobs in other countries with the goal of reducing worker-paid costs so that workers and their families can benefit more from international labor migration. Using cost data from over 3,000 workers, Merchants of Labor examines the often murky world of labor brokers, travel agents, and others who move low-skilled workers from one country to another in order to explore lower worker-paid migration costs. It explains the three core functions of labor markets-- recruitment, remuneration, and retention-- and shows how national borders increase recruitment costs. New data on what workers pay to get jobs in other countries are presented, and incentives to complement enforcement are explored as a way to induce recruiters to protect migrant workers.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Prologue -- Labor migration and labor markets. International labor migration ; Labor markets and migration -- What do workers pay? Migration costs in destinations ; Migration costs of returning workers -- Regulating recruitment. The recruiting business ; Regulating recruiters ; Recruiter incentives and alternatives ; Employers, recruiters, and workers.
  note: Philip Martin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Foreign workers
  subject:
    topic: Foreign workers
    topic: Civil rights
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Manpower policy
  subject:
    topic: Émigration et immigration
    topic: Aspect économique
  subject:
    topic: Emploi
    topic: Politique gouvernementale
  subject:
    topic: Travailleurs étrangers
  subject:
    topic: Travailleurs étrangers
    topic: Droits
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Labor
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Labor & Industrial Relations
  subject:
    topic: Emigration and immigration
    topic: Economic aspects
  subject:
    topic: Foreign workers
  subject:
    topic: Foreign workers
    topic: Civil rights
  subject:
    topic: Manpower policy
  classification: HD6300
  classification: 331.62
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      title: Merchants of labor
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      name part: Martin, Philip L., 1949-
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (DLC) 2017935048
    identifier: (OCoLC)982092745
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 170726
    record change date: 20260319164129.6
    record identifier: in00005715096
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng