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Arab Gulf States: an assessment of nationalisation policies
Mariana Andrei - Communication Coordinator
30 July 2014
The Migration Policy Centre and the Gulf Research Center have published the first 2014 research paper in the Gulf Labour Markets and Migration (GLMM) series, called "Arab Gulf States: An Assessment of Nationalisation Policies".
The author - Steffen Hertog, associate professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics - believes that the states in the region are facing a low share of nationals in private labour markets, because of the migration regime, which gave private employers access to cheap and easily controlled international migrant labour. This led to an imbalance on the regional labour market, the nationals being employed mostly in the public sector, with higher salaries, while on the private labour market migrant workers are preferred, because of lower costs and limited labour rights.
The paper analyses local governments' policies to stimulate nationals’ participation in the private labour market and their effects. The author's conclusion is that the solution relies on standardising costs, but also labour rights for migrant workers and national citizens.
Although the policies adopted so far by the Gulf States are in the right direction, they are not yet deep enough to bring a real reform.
Source:
http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/32156/GLMM%20ResearchPaper_01-2014.pdf?sequence=1
The author - Steffen Hertog, associate professor of comparative politics at the London School of Economics - believes that the states in the region are facing a low share of nationals in private labour markets, because of the migration regime, which gave private employers access to cheap and easily controlled international migrant labour. This led to an imbalance on the regional labour market, the nationals being employed mostly in the public sector, with higher salaries, while on the private labour market migrant workers are preferred, because of lower costs and limited labour rights.
The paper analyses local governments' policies to stimulate nationals’ participation in the private labour market and their effects. The author's conclusion is that the solution relies on standardising costs, but also labour rights for migrant workers and national citizens.
Although the policies adopted so far by the Gulf States are in the right direction, they are not yet deep enough to bring a real reform.
Source:
http://cadmus.eui.eu/bitstream/handle/1814/32156/GLMM%20ResearchPaper_01-2014.pdf?sequence=1
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