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Italy has an aging population which is placing a strain on the public health system and on families. At the same time, it has a distorted market of supply of health professionals. Past over enrolment in medical faculties has produced a current glut of doctors, although shortages will appear as...
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This working paper offers an overview of the LTC workforce and reviews country responses to a growing demand for LTC workers. In the context of ageing societies, the importance of long-term care is growing in all OECD countries. In 2005, long-term care expenditure accounted for slightly over 1%...
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This review surveys trends in physician supply in the United States from 1980 to the present with particular attention to the participation of International Medical Graduates. It discussed the composition of the physician workforce with regards to the number of family practitioners, specialists,...
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This paper discusses broad trends in the rates and levels of international migration over the past three decades, the places that migrants leave from and the destinations they choose; and some of the demographic and policy implications of these trends. It raises some features of international...
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to other European countries, Switzerland has pursued a fairly liberal immigration policy and maintains a unique permit … libérale en matière d’immigration et maintient un système unique de permis, qui est devenu de plus en plus ciblé sur les …
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This report discusses methods of measuring unauthorized migration to the United States. The “residual method” involves comparing an analytic estimate of the legal foreign-born population with a survey-based measure of the total foreign-born population. The difference between the two...
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Most OECD countries expect growing shortages of highly-skilled labour in the coming two decades, and immigration is … employers and workers prior to immigration. A second option is to favour candidates for migration with qualifications earned in …, et l’immigration pourrait bien être une des réponses à ce phénomène. Ces dernières années, ils ont mis en place des …
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Results presented in this paper based on the new database on immigrants and expatriates in OECD countries, show that (i) the percentage of the foreign-born in European OECD countries is generally higher than the percentage of foreigners; (ii) international migration is quite selective towards...
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années ont vu une part plus importante de l’immigration humanitaire que par le passé. C’est une forme de migration pour …. En même temps, il y a eu une augmentation de l’immigration en provenance de pays non « occidentaux » et partageant des …
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The labour market integration of immigrants in Australia is shaped by the country’s long tradition as an immigration … country and its selection policy. Over the post-war period, the main origin countries of immigration to Australia have shifted … shift, immigration policy to Australia became increasingly skills focused, which has partly countered the less favourable …
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