The OECD, together with the Business Advisory Group on Migration, jointly discussed how to advance innovative approaches to managing mobility within the labour migration framework in OECD countries.
As part of this collaboration, two joint webinars with IOE and the global corporate immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP were organised in November 2023, to present the Skills Mobility Partnership (SMP) Concept to about 130 private sector representatives and discuss opportunities for their involvement. This report presents some of the findings of these discussions. It also draws on prior work by the International Migration Division at the OECD on Skills Mobility Partnerships and
on labour migration practices in OECD countries.
This joint paper presents the context in which Skills Mobility Partnerships are being developed and explores the rationale for why private sector representatives, who are by far the largest employers worldwide, need to be proactively involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of these programmes. It discusses the conditions under which employers’ involvement and role could be strengthened. The last section proposes concrete actions to be taken with national authorities to create the conditions for a fruitful dialogue leading to the scaling up and mushrooming of operational SMPs.
