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Previously, the United States Navy allowed for the direct recruitment of 400 Filipino men every year to serve as enlisted personnel even without being permanent residents or immigrants under an agreement made by both countries in 1947, but was discontinued in 1992 following the closure of US military bases in the country. [42]
In 2012, Filipinos in Belgium officially sent a total of approximately $62.0 million USD in remittances back to the Philippines (US$32.3 land-based and US$19.8 sea-based), after a peak of $63.4 million USD in remittances in 2010. [6] This figure accounts for 0.28% of all remittances sent to the Philippines. [6]
Every day, roughly 300–500 Filipino seamen pass through Dutch ports. [2] One-third of the au pairs in the Netherlands (1,500) are Filipinas. [5] In addition, about 500 Filipinos work on oil rigs in the North Sea. [5] More than 80 Filipino students attend Dutch universities pursuing Masters or Doctorate degrees. [6]
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According to the Institute for Public Policy Research, 85.4 per cent of new immigrant Filipinos to the UK of working age are employed (as opposed to inactive - a category which includes students - or unemployed), with 12.8% being low earners (people making less than £149.20 a week – half the UK median wage) and 0.61 per cent are high earners ...
Nearly 75% of Filipinos in Norway are sea-based and working in the maritime industry. [2] The other 25% of land-based Filipinos in Norway are employed in the health care industry as physicians and nurses, in the information technology sector, in the petroleum industry as engineers, as au pairs or domestic workers, or as business, non-governmental organization and government support staff.
An overseas Filipino (Filipino: Pilipino sa ibayong-dagat) is a person of full or partial Filipino origin who trace their ancestry back to the Philippines but are living and working outside of the country. This term generally applies to both people of Filipino ancestry and citizens abroad.
The most common job for immigrants in 2017 was real estate cleaner, at 11,328. The second most common was restaurant jobs at 10,696, and the third was labour hire at 8,437. Immigrants make up 26.9% of real estate cleaners, despite only making up 6.3% of the population. [54] Around 20,000 immigrants in Finland are searching for jobs. [55]