Labour Markets
This cluster analyses the socio-economics of international labour migration, particularly the economics and politics of labour shortages and the determinants of the demand for migrant labour.
The skills and labour of migrants are often promoted as of significant benefit to national economies. Yet there is also anxiety both at potential displacement of citizens from labour markets and the exploitation of migrants in low-wage sectors. All of this occurs in the context of global economic change and an increasingly international labour market. These tensions have implications for research methods and analysis as well as for policy.
Further details on the issues addressed by this cluster can be found in the Cluster Overview
Labour Markets - Current Research Projects
Other Activities
- Researching Illegality in Immigration (Special Issue) Click here for outline
- Who Cares? Researching and Meeting the Needs of Migrant Care Workers. Project Outline(.pdf)
Previous Projects
- A need for migrant labour? Labour shortages, immigration and public policy
- Recession, Vulnerable Workers and Immigration
- The Role of Migrant Health and Social Care Workers in Ageing Societies
- Changing status, changing lives? The socio-economic impact of EU accession on low wage migrant labour in the UK
- Forced Labour in the UK
- Markets for migrant sex and domestic work
- The return of the guest worker? Temporary migration programmes in theory and practice