Use of foreign labour to meet labour shortages in dynamic East and South-East Asian economies
This paper reviews how skills shortages have developed during the transformation of the economies of East and South-East Asia's more dynamic economies, the adjustments made by firms to these shortages and how governments tried to anticipate and remedy them through education, training and immigration. It starts with a review of the transformation of these economies as indicated by the changing shares of different sectors in [gross domestic product] GDP and employment, followed by case studies of selected countries where relevant experience has been documented by earlier observers, and ends with ... Show more
Authors: Abella, Manolo
Published: Bangkok, Thailand, ILO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, 2013
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: iv, 27 p.
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