Overseas nurses are likely to be one of the first groups affected by David Cameron's drive to reduce skilled migration to Britain from outside Europe, immigration experts have warned.
George J. Borjas, the Harvard immigration economist whose work is the only evidence that the administration has cited as justifying its proposals, said in an interview on Wednesday that there was no economic justification for reducing skilled immigration.
Some environmental and safety officials say the recent rash of oil spills and accidents at petrochemical plants may be traceable to financial pressures on the petroleum industry in the 1980's that led companies to reduce skilled technicians and put an emphasis on cost cutting rather than flawless performance.
Professionals and managers are least likely to want immigration reduced, and skilled manual workers are most likely to do so - though the gap is not as clear as for age groups.
The financial burden on families for birth preparedness must be reduced if skilled attendance at delivery is to increase, which requires better supply availability in the health facilities.
In order to deal with these disequilibria, it has been suggested that, to reduce both skilled and unskilled migration, it could be necessary for OECD countries to target some of their development aid specifically to migration (see for example Böhning and Schloeter-Paredes, 1994, IOM and UNCTAD, 1996, Stalker, 2002, Lowell and Findlay, 2006, UNCTAD, 2007, and OECD, 2008).
The desire of reducing low-skilled migration in OECD countries rests on the fact that low skilled immigration lowers the low-skilled wage in hosting countries (Borjas, 2003), and reduces the working possibilities for lowly qualified native workers (Borjas, 2006).
"Smarter" targets to reduce low-skilled migration but ensure university students and high-skilled workers are not deterred.
Labour says there would be "smarter" targets to reduce low-skilled migration but ensure university students and high-skilled workers are not put off.
By contrast, presence of payment requirements during delivery reduced utilization of skilled attendance by 47%.
