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Sending Workers Abroad
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Book : Sending Workers Abroad Author : * Manolo I. Abella Language : English Library : Population Publish Place : Switzerland ISBN : 92-2-108525-2 Publish Date : January 1997 Publisher : International Labour Office (ILO) Book Type : Book Book Number : 2009 |
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INDEX
ContentsForeword Introduction
1. Defining the elements of a policy
1.1 Focus
1.2 What categories of economic migrants are relevant to foreign employment policy ?
1.3 What major policy regimes are relevant to foreign employment ?
1.4 Overview of the essential elements of a sound foreign employment policy
2. Why have a foreign employment policy?
2.1 Development aims of a foreign employment policy
2.1.1 Relieving unemployment
2.1.2 Generating foreign exchange remittances
2.1.3 Increasing the rate of savings
2.2 Social objectives
2.2.1 Improving the social returns on investments in education
2.2.2 Improving conditions of employment
2.2.3 Curbing recruitment abuses
2.2.4 Providing a safety net for migrant workers and their families
2.3 Strategic objectives
2.3.1 Stopping illegal migration and establishing order in the migration process
2.3.2 Diversifying countries of employment
2.3.3 Managing the composition of the emigrant workforce
2.3.4 Acquiring new skills abroad
2.3.5 Minimizing the brain drain and protecting domestic industries
2.3.6 Minimizing wage distortion effects
3. The first steps to be taken to formulate a foreign employment policy
3.1 Deciding on the role of the State
3.2 Establishing a policy-making structure
3.3 Possible areas for policy interventions
3.4 Choosing a policy regime and building efficient structures for implementation
4. Organizing a specialized foreign employment office
4.1 Basic functions
4.2 Structure of a foreign employment office
4.3 Consolidation and centralization
4.4 Labour attache services
5. Promoting foreign employment
5.1 Planning promotional objectives and strategies
5.2 Selecting skills to send abroad
5.3 Role of advisory boards
5.4 The problem of brain drain and what can be done about it
5.5 To which countries should foreign employment promotion be targeted ?
5.6 Establishing an efficient private recruitment system
5.7 Public employment services for foreign jobs
5.8 Promoting "corporate export"of manpower services
5.9 Promotional and marketing missions
6. Measures to protect migrants
6.1 Bilateral labour agreements
6.2 Minimum standards and foreign employment contracts
6.3 ILO Conventions and Recommendations
6.4 UN Convention on the rights of migrant workers
6.5 Exit control measures
6.6 Establishing order and discipline in recruitment
6.7 Licensing private business for recruitment
6.8 Recruitment standards and restrictions
7. Support services and measures
7.1 What welfare services are needed?
7.2 Lowering the cost of emigration
7.3 Information and counselling
7.4 Advocacy and representation
7.5 Community welfare centres in foreign countries
7.6 Repatriation assistance
7.7 Organization and financing of welfare services
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8. Providing social insurance for various contingencies
8.1 Minimizing risks through social insurance
8.2 Strategies for providing social protection to migrant workers
9. Monitoring performance and assessing impact
9.1 Translating policy aims into desired results and outcomes
9.2 Assessing the economic impact
9.3 Measuring effects and results
9.4 Comparing policy targets with results
9.5 Evaluating the efficiency of policy
9.6 Setting upper and lower bounds to acceptability
9.7 Indicators of organizational performance
9.8 Organizing data collection systems
Appendices
1 Types of economic migration
2 Structure of a computer-based foreign employment management information
system
List of charts
1.1 Major foreign employment policy regimes
3.1 Foreign employment policy map
3.2 State structures for policy implementation
3.3 Simple structure of a regulated system
3.4 Flow chart of recruitment procedure under a regulated system
3.5 Areas of intervention in a state-managed emigration regime
3.6 Structure of state-managed emigration
3.7 China: Structure of the Foreign Employment Administration
4.1 Basic functions of a foreign employment office
4.2 Organizational structure of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)
6.1 Sample employment contract of the POEA
6.2 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families (selected provisions)
6.3 Typical requirements for licensing
9.1 Performance indicators
9.2 Computer-based foreign employment information management system: Sample menu
