Tesseltje de Lange Odysseus Member’s for the Netherlands published with Pedro de Sena a new article : our income is too high, your income is too low: discretion in labour migration law and policy in the Netherlands and Macau
Labour migration policies create social tensions over the functioning of national labour markets, the interests of the local workforce, employers’ needs and migrant workers’ rights. This makes legislating on labour migration a balancing act, which often leads to legislation which grants wide discretion to bureaucrats in assessing labour market needs or other public interest indicators. […]