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Connecting People to Economies with Temporary Worker Programs

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Published on Aug 28, 2001

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In a policy brief based on a public debate sponsored by the Reuters Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment, Jan Gilbreath looks at the temporary worker issue in both the United States and Germany. She writes that, though temporary worker programs with realistic, short-term goals can provide economic benefits to both the sending and receiving counties, they are not an alternative to developing a long-term framework for permanent migration. Read the report.

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