THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION OF HEALTH CARE workers—physicians, nurses, midwives, and pharmacists—leaves the world’s poorest countries with severe human resource shortages, seriously jeopardizing the achievement of the UN Health Millennium Development Goals. Advocates for global health call active recruitment in low-income countries a crime. Despite the pronounced international concern, there is...

What explains geographical representation in the professional staff of intergovernmental organizations (IOs)? We address this question from an organizational perspective by considering IO recruitment processes. In United Nations (UN) system, processes are designed to ensure bureaucratic merit, with experience and education being relevant merit criteria. develop test a supply-side theory, postul...

More than 8% of employed RNs licensed since 2004 in the United States were educated overseas, yet little is known about the conditions of their recruitment or the impact of that experience on health care practice. This study assessed whether the labor rights of foreign-educated nurses were at risk during the latest period of high international recruitment: 2003 to 2007. Using consensus-based st...

Teacher education is deemed to play a critical role in revolutionizing any education system. As a result, pre-service teacher education has received considerable attention in education systems world over. In the context of Iran, the process of teacher education has not been properly implemented and following their being recruited teachers would go directly to classes, without possessing adequat...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences China recruiters during pandemic, particularly with their job stress and sense security. also explored new norms Chinese students’ recruitment post-pandemic crisis. Using analysis, we found that experienced different stressors pandemic regardless working location. participants recognized importance communication seeking instit...