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CEDEFOP study: Guidance for labour market integration of migrants
Mariana Andrei - Communication Coordinator
12 November 2014
The EU CEDEFOP agency (the European Centre for the Development of Professional Training) of Thessaloniki, Greece has recently published the study “Valuing diversity: guidance for labour market integration of migrants”.
Guidance services are often the first interface of immigrants with the destination society and better quality services may have a decisive contribution to immigrants' success on the labour market. The support received by third country immigrants upon arrival helps them become familiar with the legislation and institutions, with the labour market, health care and social welfare services. The information on skill equivalence and recognition is essential for accessing the labour market.
The CEDEFOP provisions confirm an already visible trend in some countries: a drop in the labour supply and the lack of labour force in some sectors of the economy, as a result of population ageing. The solution may be both to stimulate national/ local employment and to encourage economic migration to address the labour supply shortages. This requires a coordination between the demand and supply of skills, which would facilitate immigrants' labour market integration.
The study draws attention upon the need for a better coordination of employment policies, as well as for a better collaboration between the parties involved - employers, trade unions and migrant communities - so as to better respond to the needs of migrants, companies and society.
Source: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/news/24605.aspx
Guidance services are often the first interface of immigrants with the destination society and better quality services may have a decisive contribution to immigrants' success on the labour market. The support received by third country immigrants upon arrival helps them become familiar with the legislation and institutions, with the labour market, health care and social welfare services. The information on skill equivalence and recognition is essential for accessing the labour market.
The CEDEFOP provisions confirm an already visible trend in some countries: a drop in the labour supply and the lack of labour force in some sectors of the economy, as a result of population ageing. The solution may be both to stimulate national/ local employment and to encourage economic migration to address the labour supply shortages. This requires a coordination between the demand and supply of skills, which would facilitate immigrants' labour market integration.
The study draws attention upon the need for a better coordination of employment policies, as well as for a better collaboration between the parties involved - employers, trade unions and migrant communities - so as to better respond to the needs of migrants, companies and society.
Source: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/news/24605.aspx
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