title: Labor contractors: a conceptual overview.
abstract: "The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of labor brokering or contracting that helps to explain why employers turn to foreign workers to fill certain vacant jobs, and how the presence of foreign workers brought to a country by labor contractors can affect the size and duration of migration flows. The major conclusion is that East Asian policies that aim to avoid the settlement of unskilled foreign workers also make labor brokering a prominent feature of labor migration and migrant labor markets in the region."
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006285:Health Planning; D006280:Health Workforce; D009934:Organization and Administration; D010560:Personnel Selection; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Employment; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Force; Labor Migration--determinants; Macroeconomic Factors; Migrant Workers; Migration; Migration Policy; Organization And Administration; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Program Activities; Programs; Recruitment Activities; Social Policy