Author(s): Mariusz Urbanski, Khawlah M. AL-Tkhayneh, Zurabi Shamugia
Economic immigration is a phenomenon that characterizes the current world. In almost every country in the world, economic immigrants work, for whom the conditions offered on a given market were better than those on the domestic market. Each country has a different labor market, which on the one hand, can attract economic immigrants with the opportunities offered; it is looking for them, unable to find employees with appropriate qualifications. The phenomenon of economic immigration is worth examining in order to make comparisons between countries and identify similarities or differences. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a comparative analysis of the phenomenon of immigration in three selected countries – fast developing country with low experience with immigrant employment (Poland), the in developed country with long time immi-grants employment experience (United Kingdom), and the country where immigrants are majority of the workers in economy (United Arab Emirates). The quantitative study is based on the authors’ elaborated survey questionnaire and then comparative statistics are provided. The results shows differences in the management of immigrant work: companies from Poland and UAE usually offer fixed-term of employment while British companies offer full-time employment contracts. Also companies from Poland and UK, as the reason for employing immigrants, indicate a shortage of employees with the required qualifications, while UAE companies indicate the diversity that fa-vors the development of the enter-prise.