Skills for migrant workers
Important avenues of intervention comprise: designing and implementing sound labour market information systems, including accurate labour market needs assessment and skills anticipation that inform migration policies; increasing migrants’ access to education and training; establishing systems for the recognition of formally certified qualifications as well as informally acquired skills, ensuring coherence between skills, employment and migration policies; and fostering skills partnerships between countries of origin and destination.
Migrants are a heterogeneous population. Besides differing in age, gender, cultural background, education and skill level, the challenges that migrants face vary by migration corridors. To address these challenges, the ILO’s complementary research and technical assistance on Skills and Migration focusses on the most promising policy options to improve the employment outlook for migrants:
- Skills needs anticipation
- Migrants’ access to skills and lifelong learning and engagement of social partners
- Recognition of skills, qualifications and prior learning
- Skills partnerships on migration
- International labour standards on labour migration