Making Labour Migration Work: Identifying Skills Shortages and Attracting Migrant Workers as Part of the Solution
This half-day conference will bring together Irish and international speakers to provide a comparative overview of approaches to identifying labour shortages, and related migration policy formulation. Recent policy developments in Ireland and Europe indicate that migration is one, increasingly well established, part of the response to identified shortages. The conference will also provide insights into new measures used to compete for migrant workers needed to fill the identified skills and labour gaps
Joint conference hosted by EMN Ireland, within the Economic and Social Research Institute, and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
Programme
Programme
8:45
Arrival and Registration
9:15
Welcome Address
Alan Barrett, Director, ESRI
9:20
Opening Remarks
Ged Nash, TD, Minister for Business and Employment at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
9:30
SESSION 1: Approaches to identifying labour shortages and informing migration policy
Chair: Martin Shanagher, Assistant Secretary General, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
New approaches to labour migration in the OECD
Jean-Christophe Dumont, Head of International Migration Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Approaches to identifying labour shortages and informing migration policy: Review of the UK's Tier 2 routes for skilled migrant workers
Jennifer Smith, Member of Migration Advisory Committee, UK and Associate Professor of Economics, Warwick University
Identification of skills shortages in Ireland: Institutions, data and methods
Jasmina Behan, Labour Market Economist, Skills and Labour Market Research Unit, Solas, Ireland
10:30
Questions & Answers
10:50
Coffee Break
11:05
Competing internationally for migrant workers
Chair: Mr Kevin O’Sullivan, Head of Immigration Policy, Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service
Competing internationally for talent: Economic migration policy in Ireland
Fiona Flood, Head of Employment Permits and Economic Migration Policy and EU/EPSCO, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Ireland as a global centre for excellence
Mark Redmond, Chief Executive, American Chamber of Commerce
Competing internationally for migrant workers
Iván Martín, Migration Policy Centre, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
12:05
Questions & Answers
12:25
Closing Remarks
Alan Barrett, Director, ESRI
12:35
Lunch
Further information - Conference programme
EMN Ireland is located within the ESRI and is financially supported by the European Union and the Irish Department of Justice and Equality.