Reforming labour market and migration regulation in Gulf states

Hertog, Steffen ORCID: 0000-0002-6758-9564 (2022) Reforming labour market and migration regulation in Gulf states. LSE Business Review (17 Jun 2022). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The six states in the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) employ close to 20 million foreign labourers, with Qatar alone employing an estimated two million migrant workers. Foreign workers are subject to vastly different conditions and wages compared to citizens of the countries. They are governed by restrictive sponsorship systems, constraining labour mobility. Steffen Hertog‘s research on the political economy of labour market segmentation in Gulf rentier states has influenced labour reforms throughout the region.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/
Additional Information:	© 2022 The Author
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2022 08:48
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 03:36
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/116069

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