Employment Of Foreign Workers Research Articles

EMPLOYMENT OF FOREIGNERS IN MANUFACTURING AND NON-MANUFACTURING BUSINESSES

In recent years, many manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses in the Czech Republic as well as elsewhere in the European Union have experienced serious people shortages in manual, technical, and other professions. One possible solution to this personnel issue is the employment of a foreign workforce. Based on a survey of 478 manufacturing and non-manufacturing businesses across the Czech Republic, the paper aims to analyze the experience of surveyed businesses with the employment of foreign workers and propose possible solutions to long-term people shortages. The analysis confirmed that the majority of surveyed businesses need to employ foreign workers to meet present and future labor demands. In addition, dealing with long-term people shortages requires implementing various organizational and technical measures related to working hours, job design, process automation, process outsourcing, and talent development.

An empirical study in assessing the impact of foreign workers on labour productivity in the Malaysian manufacturing sector

This study investigates the impact of foreign workers on labour productivity within the manufacturing industry of Malaysia. The study utilized panel data from 297 manufacturing firms registered with the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers (FMM), covering the ten-year period from 2008 to 2017, and analysed it using static panel data regression to measure the effect of foreign workers on labour productivity. The findings of the study indicate that the employment of foreign workers, particularly those with low skills, has a negative impact on labour productivity. Low-skilled foreign workers often possess a restricted level of education and skills that may not be compatible with the demands of modern industries. Consequently, they may face challenges in adjusting to novel technologies, procedures, or intricate assignments, thereby impeding their overall productivity. It can be concluded that the employment of low-skilled foreign workers in Malaysia's manufacturing sector negatively affects labour productivity. The limited education and skills of these workers hinder their ability to adapt to new technologies and complex tasks, leading to diminished productivity levels. The findings are useful in highlighting to regulators, employers, and workers the effect of foreign workers on labour productivity. The study implies that necessary skills should be provided to low-skilled foreign workers. By enhancing their skills, these workers can better meet the demands of modern industries and contribute more effectively to the manufacturing sector in Malaysia.

The spatial distribution of economic immigrants from Ukraine and Belarus and the socio-economic development of Polish counties

Following its accession to the EU and the progressing relaxation of the legislation on employment of foreign workers, Poland started to attract more and more job seekers from other countries, mainly from Ukraine, who saw opportunities in its expanding labour market, increasing demand for workers, falling unemployment and rising wages. The inflow of workers from countries east of Poland has benefitted its economy in many ways, including the narrowing of the demographic gap and increased funding for the national budget and the Social Insurance Institution (ZUS). This study was undertaken to determine the types of factors causing Ukrainian and Belarusian nationals seeking employment in Poland to prefer one Polish county over the others and to assess their role. Based on the review of studies on the key determinants of migration, and given the limited availability of data, three major groups of factors that can be associated with their choices were selected for analysis – the distance between the migrant’s home and Polish counties, their socioeconomic status, and the presence of migration diasporas. The analysis was performed by means of the widely used gravity models that describe population movements as a function of a geographical distance, and a taxonomic measure of counties’ socio-economic development. The main sources of data used in the article were Statistics Poland (www.stat.gov.pl) and Ministry of Family and Social Policy (https://psz.praca.gov.pl/web/urzad-pracy) and Educational Information System (https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/1426,liczba-uczniow-cudzoziemcow-wedug-gmin/).

Economic and social consequences of the ban on the employment of foreign workers (example of the Central Federal District)

The article for the first time examines the experience of regulating international migration by imposing bans on attracting foreign citizens who work on the basis of patents in certain types of economic activity. The study was conducted on the basis of a comparison of the socio-economic indicators of the regions of the Central Federal District that use this tool (Tver and Voronezh regions), never used it (Moscow) and recently joined the practice (Kaluga region). The statistic for 2014-2022, reflecting the dynamics of external migration flows, the state of internal labor resources and individual sectors of the economy, as well as the level of crime among migrants, is analyzed. Conclusions about the prohibitive practice as a practice, which has little effect on the studied indices of protectionist regions and weakly distinguishes them from the background of other regions, are drawn. The number of issued patents in the Tver region is declining with a slight decrease in international labor migration in general, which indicates a change in the proportion of the foreign labor force in favor of a category, that does not require a patent. The dynamics of the gross regional product indicators for the groups of economic activities forbidden for the employment of foreign citizens coincides with the general upward trend due to an increase in labor productivity in all the subjects under consideration. Crime among foreign citizens in the Tver region before the pandemic was declining with an increase in the number of crimes committed against foreigners, which corresponded to the dynamics in Moscow and in the district as a whole. It seems promising to confirm or refute the obtained conclusions based on the results of studying the indices of all protectionist regions of the Russian Federation, which will improve the methods of forecasting and managing migration processes. It is also noted the need to expand the range of available data by forming a single digital database that makes it possible to trace the process of attracting foreign citizens at control points: medical (passing a medical examination), educational (passing an exam in the Russian language, Russian history and the basics of Russian legislation), financial (payment indicators monthly imputed patent tax).

THE DOCUMENTS REQUIREMENTS FOR EMPLOYING FOREIGN WORKERS: IMPACT ON LOCAL WORKERS IN INDONESIA

This research aims to describe the changes in the provisions on the employment of foreign workers in Indonesia. In order to create job opportunities, through Act No. 11 of 2020 on Job Creation, there is a simplification of the requirements for foreign workers. It is different from the previous one based on Act No. 13 of 2003 on Manpower, which the employment of foreign workers is an exception with certain conditions. This research used a normative juridical method with a statutory approach, it can be concluded that the provisions under Act No. 11 of 2020 on Job Creation which only requires the endorsement of Foreign Workers Utilization Plan to employ foreign workers, make it easier for foreign people to work in Indonesia. As a result, there is intense competition between foreign and local workers. The government is responsible for fulfilling the rights of citizens to obtain work, lest the simplification of foreign workers requirements to work in Indonesia causing violations of the human rights of citizens. Therefore, it is necessary to strive so that local workers are not excluded from foreign workers.

외국인근로자 고용과 관련된 개선점

Foreign workers account for a large portion of the nation’s labor demand and are on a steady rise, and are required for the local labor market. Based on the current Foreign Workers’ Employment Act, this research paper discusses individual and issue-by-point whether the legal system is valid from a normative and realistic perspective to overcome the difficulties of the industrial field. In particular, he was aware of the economic instability factors such as the corona crisis as well as the economic instability and suggested some problems and improvement measures from a normative perspective, focusing on the employment of foreign workers, who account for the majority of the nation’s foreign workforce.<BR> The regulation of domestic employment relations for foreign workers with simple functions under the Foreign Workers Employment Act may be regarded as an appropriate management of foreign workers’ stay in the legislative purpose. However, if we take a closer look at whether it is appropriate for the social reality and consider the conditions of the industrial field, there are some improvements and needs to be reviewed. In particular, a series of poor social and economic conditions related to the corona crisis can lead to a gap between the reality of the industrial site and the legal effectiveness of the foreign workers entering the country after they enter the country. In reality, even if the state or users did not intend it, there is room for each system to be used unfairly by foreign workers, such as the employment permit system, workplace change, employment change report, and exit maturity insurance.<BR> Foreign workers currently staying in our society should not be perceived as simply providing work when we need it and returning to their home country when a certain deadline arrives. At least during our stay in Korea, we are forming large and small living and legal relationships directly and indirectly, so our country should recognize social integration with foreign workers as an important issue. After the Corona 19, the nation’s labor market will have to face even greater changes, and it should not stop just from the issue of increasing the labor force of foreign workers. Changes in the economic situation and the challenges of social integration will be combined, and the problem of hiring foreign workers should not only be dealt with in regulations, but should be approached from a long-term perspective from the perspective of normative regulations considering industrial and economic conditions.

Mobility and working opportunities in the EU and Slovakia

Current globalisation processes witness the mobility and migration of labour as their characteristic features. The free movement of people and workers is one of the rights of citizens of the European Union (EU), and includes the right to move, to reside and to work in an EU member state without discrimination. The aim of this paper is to analyse the labour mobility within the EU with special attention to Slovakia. In its historical development, Slovakia belonged to countries with population migrating predominantly to foreign countries and was not a traditional destination country for migrants. However, today it has gradually become a state that employs foreign labour, especially in production plants. This change has not only been contributed to by Slovakia’s accession to the EU, but especially by the economic development of the state and the creation of new job opportunities for both domestic and foreign labour. The study analyses the intra-mobility in Slovakia and focuses on analysis of the trends in employment of foreign workers from EU and non-EU member states between 2007 and 2019. For the purposes of this paper, data were extracted from a relatively large number of prominent sources, for example: the European Commission, Eurostat, and the International Labour Organization (ILO) reports, and the Slovak Statistical Office resources related to labour mobility. In the desk research, the collected information were analysed and subjected to critical multidimensional assessment from quantitative, absolute, and relative, as well as cross-sectional perspectives. Special attention was paid to analysis of documentation that accompanied these data. The significance of the examined topic is underlined by the fact that Slovakia is currently a recipient of foreign labour due to insufficient qualification of domestic labour. It therefore introduces new legislative measures to speed up the employment process, remove administrative barriers and, in cooperation with employers, accelerate the process of adaptation to new work-related conditions, especially for workers from non-EU countries. In addition, employment of third-country nationals in Slovakia is a relatively demanding and lengthy process. On the one hand, the employment of foreigners contributes to economic development. On the other hand, this process stirs various problems, which are mainly related to cultural and social integration, and the removal of which cannot be achieved only through the legal regulations.

Women in Construction Boots: The Enabling Factors from the Perspective of Female Adolescents

Shortage of local skilled workers still exists in the construction industry of Malaysia and this in general may affect its sustainability in the long term if the problem is allowed to continue. Presently, the main contractors have to employ foreign workers from less developed countries in order to fulfil the needs of manual manpower. However, the employment of foreign workers is not the solution which the country should adopt as their presence brings a lot of socio-economic problems. It is suggested that the industry should not only attract local male youth but start to encourage female to become construction skilled workers to widen up the pool of talents. The present paper reports the findings from a survey conducted among female adolescents in Selangor, Malaysia in order to have some understanding on what is the important factors that may attract female adolescents to consider to become construction skilled workers. A factor analysis has been performed and it is suggested that the policy makers should focus on these six important factors namely conviction, satisfaction, recognition, value, support and qualification factors in order to encourage more female local youth to become construction skilled workers.

Safety Practices of Foreign Workers at Construction Site: Challenges and Strategies for Improvement

Construction sector is always associated with 3Ds industry (dangerous, dirty and difficult). Despite the significant contribution of the sector on Malaysia economic development, the statistics have shown that the sector has enormous impact on the increase number of fatality and accident rates at construction site. The employment of foreign workers with low construction skill into Malaysia has further deteriorated the site safety performance. To find improvement for this phenomenon, this research begin with investigating the current site safety approaches implemented by the foreign workers, the challenges faced by them and the strategies taken by the company to improve safety practices at construction site. In order to obtain a conclusive finding, in-depth interviews with foreign workers working with construction companies Grade 7 and their managers were carried out. Overall the findings reported that, first, although there are safety measures taken during construction operation (e.g. wearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), following safety signs and housekeeping), the measures were only be implemented occasionally. Second, language barrier, lack of safety awareness, lack of safety training and do-not-care attitude of foreign workers are found to be the major challenge led to poor site safety practices. Third, proficient in local language, develop safety awareness and supportive site condition and monitoring effort by the Site Managers are reported as important aspect to improve site safety performance. These findings enhance the understanding about site safety practices of the foreign worker who work in Malaysia. It also provides valuable improvement measures that can be carried out by top management and other construction bodies to improve site safety condition in Malaysia.

Effect of Participation of Foreign Migrant Workers in Labour Market on Native Workers: Evidence Based on Change Noticed in College Premium in Taiwan ROC

ABSTRACTUsing Manpower Utilization Survey data for 14 years from 1999 to 2012, we applied the DDDD (Differences–in–differences–in–differences–in–differences) estimation method to check if rising presence of foreign migrant workers in Taiwan’s domestic labour market had any impact on employment opportunities and wages earned by native Taiwanese workers over time. We used the data capturing the effect of college premium (viz., the additional cost to be borne for getting admission into college) paid by the natives on domestic wage rate during this period. College premium is an indicator of demand and supply for educated labour and we intend to see if the premium has grown with time when influx of foreign migrant workers has grown too. From the results, two interesting phenomena caught our attention. First, labour policy adopted by the Government in Taiwan has played an important role in increasing the influx of foreign workers into domestic labour market, which resulted in significant change in college premium paid by the natives. And, this effect lasted even when instances of strikes and reported cases of labour disputes were relatively higher. Second, the effect of the policy has been varying across genders as our data shows that policy on employment of foreign workers has affected job opportunities of native men workers more than it affected job opportunities of their female counterpart.

The Effect of the Employment of Foreign Workers on the Employments of Domestic Contingent and Young Workers

The Effect of the Employment of Foreign Workers on the Employments of Domestic Contingent and Young Workers

The demand for foreign workers by foreign firms: evidence from Africa

Foreign workers play a crucial role in channelling resources and information flows both within the boundaries of firms and between foreign firms and the host country economy. In this study we employ a novel firm-level database (UNIDO Africa Investor Survey 2010) in order to investigate the factors that determine the employment of foreign workers by foreign firms in Sub-Saharan African countries. We shed light on important firm-level as well as host–home country characteristics which shape the demand of foreign workers in developing countries. We show that differences between investors are largely explained by the role played by economic and institutional distance between home–host countries as well as by firm-level heterogeneity in the degrees of knowledge intensity and local embeddedness.

Hospitality managers' importance perceptions of human resource practices related to employment of foreign workers in the United States

ABSTRACTCross-border labor mobility of hospitality employees has resulted in an increase in illegal immigrants in the workforce. The purpose of this study was to generate a list of top legal issues associated with the employment of foreign workers in the U.S. hospitality industry and to identify factors defined by the importance ratings of these issues. Snowball sampling was used to collect data from hospitality managers. Findings reveal that respondents perceive document verification to be important but may not perceive knowledge of various visa types and employment termination reporting procedures associated with employing foreign workers to be important. Managerial implications are discussed.

Reform of the Kafāla System: A Survey Experiment from Qatar

Immigration in the Arabian Gulf is governed by the kafāla (sponsorship) system, which provides the legal basis for the residency and employment of foreign workers across the region. Despite mounting economic, political and social costs, the system remains entrenched with little prospect for reform. The following paper takes up this puzzle, asking the simple question, why has vital reform been so difficult to achieve? In answering this question, we explore the complex political and economic interests that underlie public support for the kafāla system. Drawing on data from a nationally representative survey experiment in Qatar, we disentangle the effects of various interests on attitudes toward immigration reform. When primed to consider blue-collar workers, citizens strongly support the status quo and oppose reform. Heterogeneous treatment effects further suggest that a powerful coalition of economic interests (uniting business owners, workers and the wealthy) is the most supportive of the current policy, underpinning its persistence and representing a major challenge to reform.

Immigrants in the Labour Market in Poland

Labour immigrants play an increasingly important role in balancing the situation on labour market in Poland. Given the low demographic growth rate, pessimistic forecasts, mass labour emigration and structural maladjustment of the labour market, Poland faces the huge challenge of preventing a collapse of the pension system and public finance. A solution to the problem could be, for example, an inflow of foreign workers. The character of this paper is both theoretical and practical. The purpose of the article is to analyse the phenomenon of labour immigration in Poland (legal regulations governing employment of foreign workers, scale of immigration) and to present the opinions of employers concerning the employment of foreigners and the obstacles associated with it. The results of surveys conducted among employers in Warmian-Masurian voivodeship will be used for this purpose. According to the respondents, the main advantages of employing immigrants are lower costs (28%) and filling the gaps in the labour market (21%), whereas the biggest obstacle concerns complicated legal regulations (29%). 

Improvements of the Relevant Act for Working of the Marriage Immigrants' Family in Korea

Abstract To explore the device to allow the marriage immigrants' family to take jobs in our country, the social and economic environments that they face are investigated and analyzed through literature survey and field inquiry. The principal motive of the marriage to Korean is economic problem. But their actual economic conditions are inferior, and other legal problems, such as getting jobs and remitting money to their home country, drive them to unstable status. The present hiring policy is applied only to foreign workers with no domestic relations(E-9), hence the marriage immigrants are excluded from the domestic employment. To make institutional devices for giving them the employment opportunity, the modification of the existing laws are proposed. For examples, the 'Act on employment of foreign workers' can be revised to permit immigrant's relatives to get jobs, and 'Immigration control law' can be amended to guarantee legal qualification for taking jobs. It is desirable that the overall control be made by the Prime Minister's Office, and operation as well as surveillance be performed by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family (MGEF) and the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MEL).

Migration Processes (Temporary Labor Migration)

The data published by the RF Federal Migration Service (FMS) – although these by no means should be seen as absolute truth because of the widespread practice of illegal employment of foreign workers - may, nevertheless, be taken as a kind of baseline information. These data testify to the fact that, since the same period of last year, no serious changes have occurred in regard of the scale migration, the geographical origin of foreign workers, the sectoral structure of their employment, and their distribution across Russia’s regions.

Foreign Workers to Entrepreneurs: A Framework of Job Displacement

The entry of foreign workers on a large scale to Malaysia in the 1980s was mainly to smooth and facilitate thedevelopment of economic structural change as unskilled labor in the formal sector. It is expected that in theprocess of adjusting to economic changes, there is a shift of employment of foreign workers, especially during aneconomic crisis in 1997 and 2008. The main objective of this study was to establish a hypothetical model of jobdisplacement of unskilled foreign labor to entrepreneurs. Data was gathered through a survey on foreignbusinessmen who once worked as laborers in Malaysia. Descriptive analysis results show that most migrantworkers were able to shift into entrepreneurs due to the high desire to try his luck and take advantage of a stableeconomic situation. Furthermore, those migrants are more likely to become entrepreneurs in the same businesssector of the field when first engaged as unskilled workers. Among the driving factors that contributed to the jobdisplacement includes working experience, the existence of opportunity and fellow encouragement.

Employment of Foreign Workers and the Korean Language Education

Employment of Foreign Workers and the Korean Language Education

Employment of foreign workers in the United Kingdom, 1997 to 2008

The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is the source for estimates of migrant workers in the UK economy. This article presents the most up to date LFS figures using the population estimates published in 2007. It updates figures for 1997 that have been previously released in the public domain, and also provides the most recent estimates. Given the recent public interest in the topic, this article seeks to ensure greater clarity and timeliness of migrant worker reporting from the LFS in the future, in line with the recommendations of the Inter-Departmental Task Force on migration statistics (2006). It reviews the ways in which the LFS can provide migrant worker figures, and presents the new Office for National Statistics (ONS) standard definition for migrant workers.