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The OECD analyses recent development in migration movements and policies, focusing on the economic and social aspects of migration (International Migration Outlook), on the management of labour migration to support economic growth and on the labour market integration of immigrants in OECD countries. Other areas of work consist in analysing specific topical issues (health workforce and migration project ) and in exploring the links between migration, trade and the economic development of origin countries.
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17-Nov-2011
This Conference was jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD. John P. Martin, Director for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the OECD makes his opening and closing remarks.
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01-Dec-2010
The new global bilateral international migration database DIOC-E (release 2.0) is online. This database provides comprehensive and comparative information on a broad range of demographic and labour market characteristics of immigrants living in 31 OECD and 58 non-OECD countries. A first overview of the characteristics of immigrant and emigrant populations and new estimates of the “brain drain” is given in the following OECD Working Paper "International Migrants in Developed, Emerging and Developing Countries: An Extended Profile".
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20-Oct-2010
The Seminar was jointly organised by the European Commission and the OECD under the Belgian Presidency of the European Union. John P. Martin, Director of the Directorate for Employment, labour and Social Affairs et OECD, presents his closing remarks.
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12-Mar-2010
This joint OECD/WHO Policy Brief provides new insights on recent migration trends for doctors and nurses and discusses the main causes and consequences for destination and origin countries. Possible policy responses stressing the importance of improved international co-operation to address the global health workforce crisis are presented along with new updated data up to 2008.
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28-Oct-2009
For the first time, the OECD has collected comprehensive data on the education levels and labour market outcomes of the native-born offspring of immigrants (the so-called “second generation”), compared with the offspring of natives in 16 OECD countries. The data are presented and analysed in a study that was prepared for a joint seminar of the European Commission and the OECD (1 and 2 October 2009, Brussels) and has been published today on the OECD’s website.
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30-Jun-2009
The economic crisis is likely to cause the first major fall in the number of migrants coming to work in OECD countries since the 1980s, according to a new OECD report. This is already happening, for example, in Ireland, Spain and the UK, which were among the countries first hit by the downturn.
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During the first-ever OECD High-Level Policy Forum on Migration (Paris, 29-30 June 2009), ministers and senior officials in charge of migration and integration issues discussed the impact of the current economic crisis on international migration, management of labour migration movements and labour market integration of immigrants and their children.
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26-Feb-2007
Current immigration trends in OECD countries, the role of remittances in developing countries and the integration of immigrants and their children in OECD countries are among the themes which Mr. Martin will be considering.
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