Izabela Grabowska is Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Kozminski University, Poland; Scientific Coordinator of Horizon Europe Link4Skills; and Director of Centre for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH). Mary Boatemaa Setrana is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana.

• Introduction PART I. Migration skill corridors, skill mobility and talent partnerships and ethical recruitment 1 Migration Skill Corridors 2 Skills Mobility Partnerships: Addressing global skills shortages more fairly? 3 Pursuing an ethical labour migration process in transnational recruitment PART II. Empirical pathways of skill mobility: Case studies across continents 4 Reciprocal skill exchange mechanisms as a strategy to mitigate skill flow and promote mutual development: The case of Ghana 5 Who bears the costs for vocational or academic training and education? The case of Germany’s skilled migration programmes 6 Bilateral labour agreements and migrant worker protection: The Philippine experience 7 The role of stakeholder engagement in skill corridors: The case of Canada 8 The impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-German migration skill corridors 9 Mobilising skilled people abroad: A strategic challenge for Morocco 10 Navigating skill flow: The case of India PART III. Optimum allocation of skills of migrants, skill recognition and AI-assisted skill navigation 11 Optimum allocation of skills of migrants and automation 12 Aligning skill formation and mobility strategies withsustainability goals 13 AI-driven decision support for fair migration 14 Conclusions and policy directions

Izabela Grabowska is Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Kozminski University, Poland; Scientific Coordinator of Horizon Europe Link4Skills; and Director of Centre for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH). Mary Boatemaa Setrana is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana.

• Introduction PART I. Migration skill corridors, skill mobility and talent partnerships and ethical recruitment 1 Migration Skill Corridors 2 Skills Mobility Partnerships: Addressing global skills shortages more fairly? 3 Pursuing an ethical labour migration process in transnational recruitment PART II. Empirical pathways of skill mobility: Case studies across continents 4 Reciprocal skill exchange mechanisms as a strategy to mitigate skill flow and promote mutual development: The case of Ghana 5 Who bears the costs for vocational or academic training and education? The case of Germany’s skilled migration programmes 6 Bilateral labour agreements and migrant worker protection: The Philippine experience 7 The role of stakeholder engagement in skill corridors: The case of Canada 8 The impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-German migration skill corridors 9 Mobilising skilled people abroad: A strategic challenge for Morocco 10 Navigating skill flow: The case of India PART III. Optimum allocation of skills of migrants, skill recognition and AI-assisted skill navigation 11 Optimum allocation of skills of migrants and automation 12 Aligning skill formation and mobility strategies withsustainability goals 13 AI-driven decision support for fair migration 14 Conclusions and policy directions

Izabela Grabowska is Professor of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Kozminski University, Poland; Scientific Coordinator of Horizon Europe Link4Skills; and Director of Centre for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility (CRASH). Mary Boatemaa Setrana is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Migration Studies, University of Ghana.

• Introduction PART I. Migration skill corridors, skill mobility and talent partnerships and ethical recruitment 1 Migration Skill Corridors 2 Skills Mobility Partnerships: Addressing global skills shortages more fairly? 3 Pursuing an ethical labour migration process in transnational recruitment PART II. Empirical pathways of skill mobility: Case studies across continents 4 Reciprocal skill exchange mechanisms as a strategy to mitigate skill flow and promote mutual development: The case of Ghana 5 Who bears the costs for vocational or academic training and education? The case of Germany’s skilled migration programmes 6 Bilateral labour agreements and migrant worker protection: The Philippine experience 7 The role of stakeholder engagement in skill corridors: The case of Canada 8 The impact of Russia’s full-scale invasion on Ukrainian-Polish and Ukrainian-German migration skill corridors 9 Mobilising skilled people abroad: A strategic challenge for Morocco 10 Navigating skill flow: The case of India PART III. Optimum allocation of skills of migrants, skill recognition and AI-assisted skill navigation 11 Optimum allocation of skills of migrants and automation 12 Aligning skill formation and mobility strategies withsustainability goals 13 AI-driven decision support for fair migration 14 Conclusions and policy directions