International Mobility of Health Professionals and Health Workforce Management in Canada: Myths and Realities

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16-Oct-2008

Jean-Christophe Dumont, Pascal Zurn, Jody Church and Christine Le Thi

This report (Health Working Paper No. 40) examines the role played by immigrant health workers in the Canadian health workforce but also the interactions between migration policies and education and health workforce management
policies.

The US Physician Workforce: Where Do We Stand?

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15-Oct-2008

Richard A. Cooper

This review surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates.

Health Workforce and International Migration: Can New Zealand Compete? (Health Working Paper No. 33)

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23-May-2008

Pascal Zurn and Jean-Christophe Dumont

This paper examines health workforce and migration policies in New Zealand, with a special focus on the international recruitment of doctors and nurses.

Boosting Austria's innovation performance

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28-Sep-2007

Willi Leibfritz and Jürgen Janger

Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and general framework conditions for innovation and growth.

Trends in International Migration Flows and Stocks, 1975-2005 (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 58)

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27-Sep-2007

B. Lindsay Lowell

This paper discusses trends in international migration movements over the past three decades, the countries of origin of immigrants, the principal destinations they choose, their demographic characteristics, the policy implications of migration flows and the future patterns.

Unauthorized Migrants in the United States: Estimates, Methods, and Characteristics (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 57)

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05-Sep-2007

Jeffrey Passel

Of the various techniques employed to measure unauthorized migration to the US, the most successful have been variants of the residual methods. The document describes them and presents the underlying data and assumptions..

La politique migratoire française à un tournant (Documents de travail de l'OCDE sur les affaires sociales, l'emploi et migrations, No 56)

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04-Sep-2007

Martine Durand et Georges Lemaître

La politique migratoire française s’oriente vers une plus grande diversification de ses flux d’immigration et cherchera de plus en plus à trouver un équilibre entre les entrées de migrants sélectionnés et non sélectionnés.

The Unification of the Social Insurance Contribution Collection System in Korea (OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers No. 55)

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06-Aug-2007

Sinchul Jang

Korea introduced industrial accident insurance in 1964, medical insurance in 1977, pension insurance in 1988 and employment insurance in 1995. In line with Korea’s economic development, social insurance coverage has grown rapidly, and contribution coverage rates now ...

The unemployment impact of immigration in OECD countries

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05-Jul-2007

Sébastien Jean and Miguel Jiménez

Economics Department Working Paper 563 assesses the consequences of immigration for natives’ unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the role played by product and labour market policies in the economy’s adjustment to immigration inflows.

Migration in OECD countries: labour market impact and integration issues

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05-Jul-2007

Sébastien Jean, Orsetta Causa, Miguel Jimenez and Isabelle Wanner

Immigration pressures are increasing in most OECD countries. Economics Department Working Paper 562 investigates the consequences of immigration for natives’ labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants’ integration in the host country labour market.

The looming crisis in the health workforce

Health Workforce and Migration Project

JUST RELASED

This SWAC/OECD publication reviews migration policies in the main OECD countries receiving West African migrants and analyses the recent discussions within Europe and West Africa.

West African Mobility - Migration Policies in OECD Countries

Jobs for Immigrants - Vol.1: Australia, Denmark, Germany and Sweden

Reviews of the labour market integration of immigrants and their children.

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