Japan's Specified Skilled Worker scheme private sector actors to partner with public training orgs in origin countries to be able to secure qualifying workers.
Firms like MOS (hamburger chain), Zenken (healthcare and hospitality), Persol (agriculture), etc., with Vietnam, Indonesia, India...

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Who pays for training when it’s only for a job abroad?
In Asia, new skills-based schemes require workers to meet national language or skills requirements.
Employers and placement agencies now paying to train in origin.
Development agencies also getting involved.
Some examples in this report
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For historical reasons, temporary labour migration to Canada doesn't have Asia as the main continent of
origin - but the share of Asia in has been increasing, jumping from 35% of the total in 2023 to 41% in 2024.
India accounted for 21% in 2024, and Philippines 12%.

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Labor migration from Asia to non-Asian OECD countries largely goes to USA, CAN, GBR, AUS, not EU.
Labor migration to the United Kingdom from Asia down 37%
in 2024, but 2023 was a record high. Big part of this is the boom in health and care worker visas in 2023 (now over).

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The number of foreigners employed in Asian destination economies is increasing fast from 2023 to 2024.
For OECD countries:
Japan +12%
Korea +9%
For non-OECD economies
Taipei,China +9%
Singapore +3%

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For the figures (except figure 4) do switchers include those who abandoned their studies before graduating to switch to a care worker?

That stock photo again... :-)

Jasper, "migration background" includes German-born children of immigrants, no? can you separate out German-born from foreign-born and how does that change the story?

Se avete perso la presentazione dell'International Migration Outlook 2024 in italiano, il video dell'incontro è disponibile su YouTube.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIxP...

This is core work for the OECD www.oecd.org/migration 😜