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Warning over migrant tech skills shortage

News A report by consultancy the Centre for Economics and Business Research for recruitment company Harvey Nash into the impact of skilled migrant workers has predicted the IT, telecoms and transport sector will need an extra 19,000 skilled migrants...

Tags: skills, it workers, migrants, education

[25 Mar 2008]

ID cards plan: Airport union wants answers

News Foreign nationals coming to the UK will be given cards from the end of this year and the Home Office is expected to announce details within weeks of which category of migrants will be required to have a card.

Tags: id cards, no2id, card, cards

[20 Feb 2008]

CIO Jury: Bosses snub cheap overseas IT labour

News Earlier this week the UK government announced an overhaul of the system for granting work permits and visas to overseas migrants seeking employment in the UK. UK bosses have raised questions about the extent of the country's IT skills shortage...

Tags: it skills gap, skills shortage, cio jury

[10 Mar 2006]

New work-permit rules 'will help plug UK IT skills gap'

News Most overseas IT workers will fall into the top two tiers, covering 'highly-skilled' workers - such as entrepreneurs, doctors and IT specialists - who will be able to get a visa without a firm job offer, and 'skilled' migrants, with less...

Tags: intellect, pcg, visas, immigration

[08 Mar 2006]

'Relax immigration stance for industry's sake'

News The government is committed to replacing it with a points-based system for migrants who wish to come to the UK to work or study. The chief executive of Autonomy attacked the UK government on Tuesday for what he claims is its "parochial" and "crazy...

Tags: lynch, autonomy, immigration

[12 Jul 2005]

Mexican Migrants and Other Latinos in the US Labor Market Since NAFTA

whitepaper This paper will briefly analyze labor market conditions in Mexico to explain why low wage jobs in the US are so attractive to Mexican migrants. The North American Free Trade Agreement did not have a dampening effect on Mexican migration to the US...

Tags: human capital management, conditions, migration, labor

[24 Jun 2005]

Remittances: International Payments by Migrants

whitepaper Immigrants seeking economic opportunities often send money - referred to as remittances - home to their families. This paper reviews the available data on remittances from immigrants in the United States.

Tags: financial management, states, united states, send

[24 Jun 2005]

Wage Differentials Between East and West Germany: Is It Related to the Location or to the People?

whitepaper This paper analyses income adjustment of East-West migrants based on the German Socio-Economic Panel, 1990-2002. Since migrants earned their income in both, East and West Germany, the effect of the location can be identified.

Tags: human capital management, economic, germany, differences

[25 May 2005]

International Migration and Human Capital Formation

whitepaper The paper proves that migrants invest less than natives in human capital formation because of return migration, so that migrants are more likely to be unemployed and to have flatter earnings profiles.

Tags: human capital management, return, country, migration

[25 May 2005]

DFID Rural and Urban Development Case Study - Bangladesh

whitepaper Industrial development and agrarian distress has drawn migrants to a number of urban areas. Bangladesh is one of the least urbanised countries in south Asia and features densely populated rural areas composed of clustered villages that develop near...

Tags: performance budgeting and management, develop, economic, south

[20 May 2005]

Maintaining an Educational Culture in Changing Times: A Case Study

whitepaper AMES Education provides English language and vocational training to newly arrived migrants including those who come under Refugee and Humanitarian visas and those who have Business migrant visas. AMES Education provides flexible training delivery...

Tags: online - distance education, delivery, training, education

[21 Apr 2005]

Immigration Reform Key to Border Security

whitepaper Migrants have now been lumped in with terrorists and drug smugglers as a serious threat to national security, and the U.S. After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, immigration policies and border...

Tags: border security, policies, border, border security

[27 Dec 2004]

India diary: Day five - Bangalore's contradictions

India diary: Day five - Bangalore's contradictions

Comment Locals tell me one of the downsides of Bangalore's growth is that a once sleepy and peaceful city has become overrun with thousands of migrants looking for work - and this means the wide streets are now traffic-clogged arteries filling the air...

Tags: offshoring, india

[04 Jun 2004]

Oracle Data Access from .NET

whitepaper With many Microsoft developers making the transition to .NET, and with a seemingly great number of those migrants developing against an Oracle backend, the need for technical information on Oracle data access from .NET is clear.

Tags: database management

[24 Feb 2004]

Fast track visas fail to ease IT skills shortage

Fast track visas fail to ease IT skills shortage

News Official figures from the Home Office out today show that just 338 foreign citizens have immigrated under the government's high-skilled migrants programme since January. The government would not say how many of these were for IT professionals, but...

[24 Jun 2002]

IR35 <strong>migrants</strong> warned on risks of running

IR35 migrants warned on risks of running

News The introduction of IR35 is driving many British IT contractors abroad to avoid the tax, but without enough local information they could be no better off. Contractors moving to Germany are being warned that German regulations concerning self...

[01 Jun 2001]

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