In an anonymous office building near Holborn underground station, some of London’s most vulnerable residents meet every Sunday—for many, their only day off work. The group Justice for Domestic Workers (www.j4dw.com) campaigns for the rights of the roughly 16 000 foreign maids, nannies, and housekeepers in the United Kingdom. It has more than 1000 members. Predominantly women aged 25-65, from co...

The right to health of migrant populations, whether they are foreign nationals, foreign workers, tourists, asylum seekers or refugees, is enshrined in international human rights treaties. The effectiveness of the implementation of this fundamental right thus lies in national legal frameworks. In spite of its long humanitarian tradition, Switzerland has a strict migration policy, and while it ha...

The effects of immigration on the total output and income of the U.S. economy can be studied by comparing output per worker and employment in states that have had large immigrant inflows with data from states that have few new foreign-born workers. Statistical analysis of state-level data shows that immigrants expand the economy’s productive capacity by stimulating investment and promoting spec...

Migration of women as domestic workers from developing to developed countries is a growing phenomenon. In Hong Kong, foreign domestic workers (FDWs) account for 6 percent of the labor force and among households with young children, more than one in three hires at least one. This paper investigates the e¤ects of the availability of foreign domestic workers on Hong Kong women’s welfare and decisi...

We look at privatization in a general equilibrium model of a small, tariff-distorted, open economy. There is a differentiated good produced by both private and public sector enterprises. A reduction in government production in order to cut losses from such production raises the returns to capital and increases the tariff revenue, which are welfare improving. However, privatization also leads to...

Foreign direct investment is a key driving force behind the growth and development of the software industry in the Irish economy. This paper examines worker mobility as a key channel through which multinational enterprise (MNE) subsidiaries can raise productivity in host country indigenous firms with an application to the Irish software industry. The basic premise is that workers, while employe...

the literature. Price, in the Lancet for December 1934, quotes the results of Uroiste of Montevideo and Stejskal of Vienna. These workers used carefully-standardized triple typhoid vaccine intravenously, to produce the shock. Triple vaccine, by virtue of its specificity, produces a more defined and uniform reaction than other foreign proteins or nonspecific vaccines. Being impressed by the succ...

U.S. farmworkers are paid on a piecerate or timerate basis. This paper studies relationships between wage contracts, legal status, and poverty using a representative survey of employed farmworkers which includes detailed information on legal status, including whether a worker is illegal. Results indicate that while piecerate workers earn more per hour on average, they work fewer hours and face ...