All things migration @Labor_Mobility looking closely at GER, ECOWAS and Australia-Pacific; me on Niger bit.ly/2cH9G2e; views my own; she/her 🏳🌈
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Our team at LaMP works with governments around the world to scale up and improve their @labor_mobility systems - reach out if you would like to know more or work with us!
13 Sep 2022
What If Europe Faced a Lack-of-Migration Crisis?
Great scenario setting by @alia_fakhry if the EU countries don't properly rethink their labor immigration systems quickly. dgap.org/en/research/publica… via @dgapev
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1 Apr 2025
⏰ Help us bring win-win migration models to SOCAP's impact investment community!
✅ Our session explores how responsible, scalable labor migration solutions can support businesses, workers, and economies alike.
⭐ Vote for our #SOCAP25 workshop, here: rb.gy/fcyqfx
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13 May 2024
What the EU should have proposed to the UK in order to have made a meaningful negotiation approach on the Youth Mobility visa.
And what the UK should carefully consider to ensure it can stay an innovative country. Young minds are the biggest motor of innovation after all!
24 Apr 2024
*New briefing* from @STWolpers & @jujulemons
🇬🇧 should expand its Youth Mobility Scheme to compete in the global race for talent.
Talent creates growth: 1 in 5 FTSE 100 companies were founded by migrants, and 39% of the UK's fastest growing startups have migrant founders.
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11 May 2024
Ich habe mit @heindehaas über seine Kritik an der europäischen Migrationspolitik gesprochen, diesen Teufelskreis an falschen Slogans und Fake-Lösungen, wie er sagt - und darüber was es wirklich bräuchte, um irreguläre Migration zu regulieren.
@derspiegel
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24 Apr 2024
The next government should read this from @STWolpers & @jujulemons
Expansion of YMS is popular with the British public, the EU wants it, and our economy needs it. What's not to like?
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24 Apr 2024
*New briefing* from @STWolpers & @jujulemons
🇬🇧 should expand its Youth Mobility Scheme to compete in the global race for talent.
Talent creates growth: 1 in 5 FTSE 100 companies were founded by migrants, and 39% of the UK's fastest growing startups have migrant founders.
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24 Apr 2024
*New briefing* from @STWolpers & @jujulemons
🇬🇧 should expand its Youth Mobility Scheme to compete in the global race for talent.
Talent creates growth: 1 in 5 FTSE 100 companies were founded by migrants, and 39% of the UK's fastest growing startups have migrant founders.
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24 Apr 2024
@STWolpers & I make the case for expanding the YMS so 🇬🇧 can 🏅 in the global race for talent.
24 Apr 2024
*New briefing* from @STWolpers & @jujulemons
🇬🇧 should expand its Youth Mobility Scheme to compete in the global race for talent.
Talent creates growth: 1 in 5 FTSE 100 companies were founded by migrants, and 39% of the UK's fastest growing startups have migrant founders.
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14 Dec 2023
Deeply grateful to @BoellStiftung not only for drawing more attention to @mashagessen's brilliant and humane @NewYorker essay but also for proving, in its reaction to the piece, the very points that Masha so powerfully makes.
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19 Nov 2023
🚨🔥 🥳We’ve recently finished collecting the 1st wave of what we hope will be a helpful panel data resource, which we’ve uncreatively called the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey. Here is a quick thread, as we have just released a report with all the main descriptive findings. 1/N
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18 Oct 2023
One final thought:
Fact-checks after the fact are inherently limited. “A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on”.
Forensic, investigative, truth-seeking work should be a proactive part of breaking news coverage, not a reactive add-on afterwards.
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18 Oct 2023
Some quick thoughts on why large parts of the mainstream media keep slipping up on Gaza/Israel (and why it was the same at times with Covid):
The main reason is a failure to keep pace with modern news gathering techniques, but there’s more.
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25 Jul 2023
Pretty straightforward @WSJ editorial today. Birth rates are going down, unemployment is going down, and labor shortages are going up.
"Someone needs to make the case that admitting foreign workers is good for Americans."
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21 Jun 2023
It's strange how Suella Braverman says here that 4,000 people have received Windrush compensation when the actual figure is only 1,681 - much lower.
The press office says she made a mistake
But this was the most important figure for the interview
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26 Apr 2023
Fifty five (55) men, women & children drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Italy.
Tomorrow Italian PM Meloni will meet Sunak & they’ll smile for the cameras & say more of the same enforcement & cruelty is the answer to this never ending nightmare nytimes.com/2023/04/26/world…
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31 Mar 2023
When I talk about the need for more funding for legal and safe labor migration, sometimes folks from the US and UK highlight the seemingly impossible political barriers, questioning whether resources invested in mobility will make a difference...
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14 Feb 2023
The average low-skilled immigrant to the U.S. generates an indirect fiscal benefit of $750 (through their effect on resident wages and labor supply).
14 Feb 2023
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration" by Mark Colas and Dominik Sachs. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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26 Jan 2023
Featured on @npr, @AriShapiro and LaMP’s Research Director @LantPritchett discuss #migration’s positive economic impact across high-income countries facing #populationdecline. Listen in @npratc: ow.ly/7Qnq50MAF52 #labormobility
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9 Feb 2023
#Responsiblerecruitment practices can only be successful and truly ethical if workers are consulted in the design. Our team examines the findings of @EquitableFood & our conversations with #farmworkers to identify their key priorities. ow.ly/sf0m50MOFBV
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31 Mar 2023
"A winning #migration strategy can deliver both near-term and long-term payoffs....Such a strategy requires not only effective integration of immigrants, but also an optimal #migrationmix—one that acknowledges the many forms of additive value that global talent offers."
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31 Mar 2023
Out today! @BCG's A New Migration Strategy for Growth and Innovation presents a framework to aid policy makers in increasing economic growth & social cohesion through migration policies. Co-authored by LaMP's @RebekahL_Smith and Janina Kugel and others on.bcg.com/3U1nGVy
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31 Mar 2023
@malengo's work in higher education with fwd thinking investors like @Nerland87 shows that more resources innovative financial solutions can = more mobility. 4/
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31 Mar 2023
We started @malengo in 2021 to support Ugandan students on their journey to a Bachelor's degree in Germany.
That year, we admitted 10 students.
In 2022, we admitted 30.
Please meet the @malengo class of 2023:
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY STUDENTS!
Here's how we did it: 1/n
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