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- Title
At the End of the World: Holding on to Health Workers in Niue.
- Authors
Connell, John
- Abstract
The migration of health workers from Niue is part of a broader migration trend where the national population has declined significantly in the past quarter of a century. This is due to significant social and economic differences with New Zealand, and the shift in population gravity towards New Zealand where most Niueans now live. The impact of migration in isolated Niue was less than in some other Pacific states, measured either as workforce vacancies or inadequate service provision. Niue has retained an effective health workforce because of external conditions: an aid dependence that enables a large public service with most households having two wage earners in the public service. Opportunities for promotion and training, alongside boredom, rather than salaries or standard workplace issues concerned many workers. Small and remote islands such as Niue face the challenge to retain a skilled workforce in the face of high rates of emigration.
- Subjects
NEW Zealand; NIUE; COMMUNITY health workers; PUBLIC health personnel; EMIGRATION &; immigration; LABOR mobility; SKILLED labor; EMPLOYMENT in foreign countries; NIUEANS
- Publication
Asian & Pacific Migration Journal (Scalabrini Migration Center), 2007, Vol 16, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0117-1968
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/011719680701600203