Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative employment levels of return migrants in Finland with regard to their re-adaptation into the labour market. Design/methodology/approach – Longitudinal census data distinguished Finns who had lived abroad and returned to Finland....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the implications for HRM of employers' use of migrants in low-skilled work in a UK-based firm. Is the use of migrant workers for low skilled work associated with “soft” or “hard” approaches to HRM? How do employers recruit migrant...

Purpose – The paper seeks to analyse the self-selection of international migrants on observable skills. Design/methodology/approach – Based on an extended version of the Roy model, which considers random migration costs, the authors analyse the self-selection of migrants on observable skills...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline some of the key issues related to migrant workers, work, public policy and HRM while introducing the five articles included in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports on the issue which is made up of articles that...

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

The authors review the different migration episodes in Spain since the beginning of the 20th century, with special emphasis on the pieces of empirical work that have tried to identify factor behind them. Migrations abroad for the 1900-1950 and 1950-1973 are considered. Foreign immigration is...

Globalization, or integration with the world economy via WTO membership, was expected to increase foriegn investment and benefit the labour intensive manufacturing sector in China. Yet, although foreign investment has been flowing into China and employment in the low-wage industries is...

Hawala plays a key role in facilitating remittances, especially those of migrant workers and is an integral part of the international finance system. There was, however little understanding of the concept, mechanism and its impact on the global financial channels. This research effort aims at...

The authors investigate the determinants of the remarkable increase in intra-regional migrations since the 1980's in Spain, using a large administrative micro dataset on migrants. Conditional migration probabilities are identified by comparing the migrant's joint distribution of characteristics...

Purpose – This paper seeks to assess the Australian approach to managing a culturally diverse workforce by examining the outcomes of this approach. Design/methodology/approach – The paper applies Syed and Özbilgin's relational, multilevel framework for managing diversity to study policies...