Capital is viewed as an essential instrument for highly skilled migrants (HSMs) to gain employment in a host country. Although scholars analyse the impact of capital on labour market integration, difference between and resources rarely made. Treating such degree or networks too unspecific disguises what truly counted that affects occupational attainment HSMs. This study addresses this issue by ...

This paper investigates the disruption to global supply chains caused by COVID-19 and how such disruptions will affect participation of Chinese businesses in those chains. The focus is on post-COVID-19 outlook for migrant workers working hospitality garment industries. It argued that managers within use accounting processes maintain profitability cutting costs. Moreover, corporate chains, wages...

Whatever Works: Dualisation and the Service Economy in Bismarckian Welfare States The paper compares employment structures in five Continental welfare states. These countries feature broad similarities in their reliance on a more dualised model of labour market flexibility, particularly in service occupations with low skill requirements. However, a closer look also reveals considerable differen...

In Nepal, most births take place at home, and many, particularly in rural areas, are not attended by a skilled birth attendant. The main objectives of the study were to assess the use of skilled delivery care and barriers to access such care in a rural community and to assess health problems during delivery and seeking care. This cross-sectional study was carried out in two Village Development ...

1) This argument is used by Kettunen (1994) is his job competition model. 2) This is corroborated by the fact that particularly in the lower segment of the labour market over-schooling occurs to a large extent. For the Netherlands this is documented in Goort and Maasen-Van den Brink (1996) and Oosterbeek and Webbink (1996). 3) The implied crowding out effect — or as Dreze and Malinvaud (1993) p...

This article introduces a special issue on the labour market integration of highly skilled refugees in Sweden, Germany and Netherlands, three countries that received large number asylum seekers mid-2010s. Authorities have devised various policies aim to speed up process for refugees. critically examines normalized assumptions about causes their low employment rates inform existing initiatives. ...