OECD 주요국의 이주정책과 이주민 특성분석

This study examines immigration policies in OECD countries and analyzes global trends and immigrants’ characteristics. Prior to the examination, we classify six countries by the Varieties of Capitalism and welfare capitalism theory: one is Anglo-Saxon countries and the other is European countries. By reviewing strategies for attracting immigrants by types of the states and the skill level, we find out that most countries have tried to attract from the lower skilled to highly skilled immigrants recently. And we analyze immigrants’ characteristics using OECD 2012 PIAAC data with skill and immigration variables. The results of the analysis are follows; first, the results of basic statistics present distinct differences between the highly skilled and the lower skilled. Second, the immigrants’ reading and numeracy skill levels in Anglo-Saxon countries are higher than those of the lower skilled. It means that the high skilled group has excellent abilities to communicate, understand, discuss, and deal with some problems at work. Third, the higher skilled is excellent in reading skill compared to the lower skilled in European countries. We find out immigration trends through reviewing policies and analyzing data and it will be useful and helpful to reestablish and enforce the immigration policies in Korea.