This timely OECD report comes as policy concerns about migration across the OECD membership have drastically increased since the start of the global crisis in 2007. Indeed, the positive expectation of solving demographic and skill-shortage problems has been increasingly overshadowed and superseded by rising nationalism and xenophobia, associated with growing difficulties encountered in major immigration countries to « assimilate » migrants in society, to reduce high- and long-term unemployment among nationals, and to check social welfare deficits, which tend to be associated (though unjustifiably in most cases) with migrants supposedly abusing social benefits.
« International Migration Outlook 2014. Special Focus: Mobilising Migrants’ Skills for Economic Success », OCDE, décembre 2014, 430 p.
The report contains an analysis of a wide range of major issues that must be taken into account by policy makers for addressing the problem of a socially acceptable and growth-oriented labour migration. These include an overview of the major international migration trends, especially labour migration (Chapter 1); the challenges and policies to facilitate the labour market and social integration of ...
