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Title: | Algeria: Emigration from A Centrally Planned Economy |
Authors: | Findlay, Allan Findlay, Anne Lawless, Richard |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Maghreb Review |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | May-June |
Pages: | 82-85 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Algeria |
Subjects: | emigration employment Economics and Trade Development and Technology Politics and Government |
Abstract: | Algeria became a labour exporting country at the beginning of the twentieth century, and through-out the colonial period emigration was entirely dominated by French decision making. The policy of the independent Algerian government after the aid 1960s was marked by the emergence of a centrally planned economy which incorporated emigration as an essential strand of development Algeria' particular brand of modernisation based on high technology, capital intensive industrialisation has created relatively few jobs, the majority for skilled workers. Until 1973 emigration provided an important safety valve for surplus labour from the neglected agricultural sector characterised by deteriorating employment prospects. This safety valve was effectively closed in 1973 by the Algerian decision to terminate new migration, and no new measures to create jobs in Algeria have been introduced. Reinsertion of workers is likely to have only a limited impact on the half million Algerian workers still in France. The French proposal not to renew the 10 year residence permits of Algerian workers due to expire in January 1979 could have devastating implications for the already overloaded Algerian labour market. Ref., note, tab. |