The Institute of Social Insurance Studies interviewed 347migrant workersin Jiangsu regarding their financial plans for their old age. Of these, only 6.34 per cent said they would depend on their children, while 17 per cent said they would save money in the bank. As shown inTable 8.1, 50 per...
A migrant worker is someone who travels for a job––in the U.S., many farm workers migrate from Mexico every year to work on the harvest and then return home when their jobs are over.If you have traveled into a new country, you are said to have immigrated there, and you are an ...
Switzerland itself has a very large migrant worker population divided between workers with different types of residence permits: short-term permits, temporary residence permits longer than one year and up to several years, border commuters (typically from France in Geneva) and those with a settlement...
measure. A horizontal mismatch refers to a worker who is educated in a field other than the one that his or her job requires. Particularly in Germany, the concept of occupational mismatch is clearly distinguished from that of educational mismatch because of the country’s widespread vocational tra...
infection from the infected population), and the economic loss due to the workers not working for the duration of the lockdown (the fourth element is derived by multiplying the total worker population in state i with the number of days of lockdown and GDP contribution per worker per day). ...
For some informants, the definition of rest day was called into question. For Elsa, a 40-year-old Filipino domestic worker who has lived in Malaysia for more than 12 years, her rest day consisted of two hours every Sunday. Peni, a policymaker, spoke about another com- mon issue that ...
The precondition for the intermediary chain to function is that various intermediaries can work together. First, the labor service company signs a worker-recruitment contract with an employer, but does not conduct the recruitment independently; instead, it actively outsources the hiring tasks to scalper...
It is rare that one makes the time (and manages to navigate those strong accents) to find out what goes on in the mind of a young migrant worker. Thus, in the new year of the goat, and with an ever-thriving labour population, we should really start asking ourselves; who are these ...
Living in urban society, they struggle to access equal urban public services, leading to severe social issues within the migrant rural worker population. Under the influence of various urban–rural integration policies, migrant rural workers have not significantly increased their willingness to return ...
white-collar worker; work-related stress; health-related quality of life; migrant worker1. Introduction Worker migration and labor mobility are increasingly common phenomena in many regions of the World. Migrant workers contribute to the economic growth of high-income countries, often serving as the...