Higher unemployment and the greater availability of migrant labour appear to be holding wages down.
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Microsoft has said that tighter restrictions on migrant labour might make it shift some of its operations to Asia.
But the impact of the slump on migrant labour may not be straightforward.
Setting an early date for actual admissions would upset a lot of Austrians, who fear an influx of migrant labour.
But the urban economy relies on migrant labour, and some cities have been much more adroit than Beijing in providing schools.
The ageing of China's labour force matters, because older workers are less willing to move to the coastal factories that depend on migrant labour.
Yet the government, which has commissioned a review on the future of SAWS, does not want to encourage migrant labour when 2.6m Britons are unemployed.
Farming, construction and health care in the southern states, which rely on migrant labour (documented or otherwise), will have a smaller pool from which to recruit.
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He said British farmers had turned to migrant labour because skilled British workers found they could "work lower numbers of hours for more money" in other industries and students were no longer prepared to do seasonal agricultural work, which could be physically demanding.
Gregory Schell, a labour lawyer with the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, tells of his efforts over the years to help migrant workers at both firms.
Other things being equal, immigrants are more likely to vote Labour than the population as a whole, yet the rise in London's migrant population did not stop the Tories' Boris Johnson from taking the mayoralty from Labour's Ken Livingstone in 2008 and holding on to it earlier this year.
Mainstream Islamists, such as the economy minister, Abdullah Shamia, speak not of imposing Islamic law but of respecting contracts with foreign oil companies, diversifying the economy away from oil dependence, wooing investment, and regulating the labour market to block a new influx of migrant workers seeking passage to Europe.
Intriguingly, the voucher debate has pitched civil-rights-era black leaders and teachers' unions, who oppose the idea, against supporters ranging from the conservative governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, to the leftist head of the Milwaukee school board, John Gardner, a labour organiser who once led a campaign to support Cesar Chavez, the founder of the migrant farm-workers' union.
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