{"product_id":"the-worlds-most-open-country-labour-migration-to-sweden-after-the-2008-law","title":"The world's most open country : labour migration to Sweden after the 2008 law","description":"Current themes in IMER research nr 15.\nWhat happens when a state entrusts the power to select labour migrants\nto individual employers? This question seems unlikely in a world where\ncountries tend to increase their efforts to control migration flows. When\nit comes to labour migration, for example, there is a trend towards more\nselective policies where states try to attract high-skilled migrants while\nlow-skilled migrants are restricted to temporary migration programs\nwith less access to rights (Ruhs 2013, De Somer 2012). In general, there\nis a trade-off between generous admission policies and the set of rights\nlabour migrants have. The rights are also often very different for lowand\nhigh-skilled labour migrants (Ruhs 2013). None of these trends\napplies to the Swedish case. In fact, the country has done the opposite.\nThe new law on labour migration that came into force on December 15\nin 2008 abolished the labour market test and introduced a non-selective\ndemand driven labour migration policy where individual employers\nwere given the power to select migrant workers. Tobias Billström, the\nSwedish minister of migration, seldom misses a chance to promote its\ndesign and present it as a role model for other countries to follow. At the\n2013 UN Commission on population and development Billström said\nthat “Sweden now has one of the most flexible and efficient systems for\nlabour migration in the world”.In this book we want to make a contribution to the research on\nlabour migration management, while at the same time giving voice\nto the high-skilled migrants and their experiences. The Swedish case\nprovides a great opportunity to study the effects of a policy change.\nFirstly, there is a clear policy change in December 15 2008 that affected\nall kinds of labour migration from outside the EU\/EEA. The labour\nmarket test was abolished and the policy is now one of the most pure\nexamples of a demand driven labour migration model which is estimated\nto be one of the world’s most open (OECD 2011). Secondly, the Swedish\nstatistical registers allow for a follow-up of the total population of labour migrants, including their position on the labour market.","brand":"Malmö högskola","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32425950543972,"sku":"9789171046178","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/the-worlds-most-open-country-labour-migration-to-sweden-after-the-2008-law","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}