Overseas labour exert positive economic impact in study
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10:52 29/03/2006
A study by ING bank in small and medium sized firms in Flanders, the Netherlands and Poland revealed that overseas workers exert a positive economic impact. The study by ING investigated four forms...
Germany holds off immigrant workers from the East
9:43 22/03/2006
Germany plans to keep its current ban on foreign workers from new European Union states entering its labour market till 2009, vice-chancellor and labour minister Franz Muentefeing told Passaver Neve...
UK sees slow down in workers from eastern Europe
18:15 01/03/2006
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UK economy helped by workers from eastern Europe
9:02 09/02/2006
The influx of workers from central and eastern Europe has boosted Britain's economy, relieved skilled shortages and cut unemployment lines, the European Commission says. Britain had reaped the...
UK universities need foreign lecturers
9:38 04/01/2006
British universities are short of lecturers to teach maths, physics, chemistry and engineering, a report on the UK's academic workforce revealed. For the past 10 years, universities have been trying...
New trends in migration to the UK: report
13:58 20/10/2005
New figures show that about 111,000 workers came to the UK from the new EU countries in the past year. That figure is up from 20,000, the number that arrived before EU enlargement in May 2004. The...