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Foreign workers-development aid by LDCs?

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People have up to now seen in the armies of foreign workers a useful labour reserve, without which the highly industrialised nations of northern Europe would suffer a decline of prosperity. However, the present article, in examining the economic effects of this mass transfer of workers, makes the point that it may have highly adverse consequences for host countries.

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  1. During the last two years alone, the following books have been published on problems of foreign workers: R. Lendesdorff, H. Zilleben, Gastarbeiter = Mitbürger (Foreign Workers = Citizens), Gelnhausen 1971. - Development Centre OECD, Migration and Development, the Case of Algeria, Paris 1971.- L. Elsner, Fremdarbeiterpolitik in Westdeutschland (Policy on Foreign Workers in West Germany), Berlin 1970. - P. Cinani, Emigration und Imperialismus (Emigration and Imperialism), Munich. - E. Klee, Die Nigger Europas. Zur Lage der Gastarbeiter (Europe’s Niggers. About the Foreign Workers’ Position), Düsseldorf 1971. - H. R. Koch, Gastarbeiterkinder in deutschen Schulen (The Children of Foreign Workers in German Schools), Königswinter 1970. - Meistermann-Seeger, K. Bingemer, E. Neubert, Leben als Gastarbeiter (The Life of Foreign Workers), Cologne 1970. - H. Kammrad, “Gast”-Arbeiter-Report (Report on “Guest” Workers), 1970. - A. Pasual, El Retorno de los Emigrantes (The Return of the Emigrants), Barcelona 1970. - W. Fietkau (ed.), Gastarbeiter (Foreign Workers), Wuppertal 1971. - Kl. Klee, Gastarbeiter- Analyse und Berichte (Foreign Workers - Analysis, and Reports), Frankfurt 1971. - From the literature on former discussions, the following selection of writings may be quoted- Beihefte zur Konjunkturpolitik (Supplementary Pamphlets - on Cyclical Policy), Probleme der ausländischen Arbeitskräfte in der BRD (Foreign Workers’ Problems in the Federal Republic of Germany), Pamphlet 13, 1966. - C. Föhl, Stabilisierung und Wachstum bei Einsatz von Gastarbeitern (Stabilisation and Growth under Conditions of Employment of Foreigners), Kyklos, Vol. 20, 1967, pp. 119-146. - U. Harms, Wirtschaftliche Aspekte des Gastarbeiterproblems (Economic Aspects of the Problem of Foreign Workers). Hamburg Yearbook for Economic and Social Policies, Vol. 11, 1966, pp. 266–283, and articles in “Volkswirt”, and WIRTSCHAFTSDIENST.

  2. Die Welt, April 19, 1971, p. 1. Emphasis added by the authors.

  3. Dr J. Dingwort-Nussek, Commentary of the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR): Entwicklungshilfe für Deutschland (Development Aid for Germany), April 21, 1971.

  4. These figures have been quoted in a working paper for the Whitsun Meeting on Economics, Augusburg 1971, and in the pamphlet: Warum brauchen wir Gastarbeiter? (Why Do We Need Foreign Workers?), Rosenheim 1971; cf. also Chr. Rosenmöller, Volkswirtschaftliche Aspekte der Ausländerbeschäftigung (Economic Aspects of Employing Foreigners). Bundesarbeitsblatt (Federal Labour Gazette), No. 4, 1970, p. 235.

  5. H. erié , Finanzielle und ökonomische Auswirkungen eines Geburtenrückgangs (Financial and Economic Effects of a Falling Birth Rate). Bundesarbeitsblatt, No. 5, 1971, p. 337.

  6. Föhl, 1.

  7. H. J. Rüstw , Gastarbeiter - Gewinn oder Belastung für unsere Volkswirtschaft (Foreign Workers - A Blessing or a Burden for our Economy), in: Probleme der ausländischen Arbeitskräfte in der BRD, l. c, pp. 35-48.

  8. Föhl, 1. 144 (the year named in brackets inserted by the authors).

  9. Föh 1 , 1. c145.

  10. E. Tuhtfeldt, Das Problem der ausländischen Arbeitskräfte in der Schweiz (Problems of Foreign Workers in Switzerland), in: WIRTSCHAFTSDIENST, No. 12, 1965, p. 643.

  11. Cf. the interesting article by H. Giersch, Probleme stabilitótskonformer Lohnpolitik (Problems of a Wage Policy in Agreement with Stability), In: Kyklos, Vol. 20, 1967, pp. 147–165, especially pp. 159-161.

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  12. Second European Conference on Population Problems, August 31 – September 7, 1971, Proceedings of September 4, 1971, Strasbourg.

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Kade, G., Schiller, G. Foreign workers-development aid by LDCs?. Intereconomics 7, 24–27 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02929146

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