International Migration Review
Volume 41, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 480-510

A global labor market: Factors motivating the sponsorship and temporary migration of skilled workers to Australia (Article)

Khoo S.-E.* , Mcdonald P. , Voigt-graf C. , Hugo G.
  • a The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • b The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
  • c University of the South Pacific
  • d University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Abstract

The recruitment of skilled foreign workers is becoming increasingly important to many industrialized countries. This paper examines the factors motivating the sponsorship and temporary migration of skilled workers to Australia under the temporary business entry program, a new development in Australia's migration policy. The importance of labor demand in the destination country in stimulating skilled temporary migration is clearly demonstrated by the reasons given by employers in the study while the reasons indicated by skilled temporary migrants for coming to work in Australia show the importance of both economic and non-economic factors in motivating skilled labor migration. © 2007 by the Center for Migration Studies of New York.

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recruitment labor migration skilled labor Australia labor market Australasia migrant worker
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2007.00076.x
ISSN: 01979183
Cited by: 45
Original Language: English