Austria is facing a shortage of skilled workers, particularly in the healthcare, STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics), and construction sectors. To address this, the country’s government and other stakeholders are exploring new ways to attract skilled professionals from abroad. Agreements relating to that have recently been established at both the national and provincial levels. Before that, recruitment of skilled labour from abroad was mainly organised through private initiatives, which continue to play a complementary role. Among the Link4Skills countries under study, Austria has specifically targeted India, the Philippines, and Indonesia, with the intention of facilitating the migration of skilled workers.

Country Profiles provide relevant information about places where Link4Skills is conducting empirical fieldwork on transnational labour migration with a focus on migration skill corridors. Countries investigated include Austria, Canada, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Nigeria, the Philippines, Poland and Ukraine.

See all country profiles here: Publications – Link4Skills

Keywords

#Governance

#LabourMarket

Regions

Europe and Northern America

Countries

Austria