The healthcare sector in the Netherlands has been struggling with staff shortages for years. Healthcare employers elsewhere in Europe are also increasingly struggling to fill vacancies. Yet in the Netherlands much less than in other countries is recruitment abroad chosen as a solution. Among policymakers, there is little enthusiasm to facilitate labor migration for the healthcare sector. How do employers in this sector view labor migration as a possible solution? What are reasons not to choose recruitment abroad? And what are the experiences of healthcare employers who did recruit abroad? To answer these questions, an online survey of healthcare employers and interviews with healthcare employers were conducted. Anita Böcker and Tesseltje de Lange of Radboud University’s Centre for Migration Law publish research on employer perspectives on labor migration in a new Sociology of Law Working paper.
Read the full working paper here.