Title Labour Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Region : Dynamics, Issues and a New APEC Agenda

Published Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 235 pages) Contents Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword / Morrison, Charles E. / Young, Soogil / Magsaysay-Ho, Doris -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Chapter 1. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in Asia-Pacific -- Implications for Business and Regional Economic Integration: Synthesis / Hugo, Graeme -- Chapter 2. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in Northeast Asia -- Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation / Hur, Jai-Joon -- Chapter 3. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in Southeast Asia -- Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation / Yue, Chia Siow -- Chapter 4. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in Australasia -- Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation / Hugo, Graeme / Callister, Paul / Badkar, Juthika -- Chapter 5. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in the Pacific Americas -- Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation / Stephenson, Sherry -- Appendix I. PECC Case Study Team on International Labour Mobility -- Appendix II. PECC-ABAC Joint Task Force on International Labour Mobility -- About the Contributors -- References -- Index Summary Driven by demographic changes, and reinforced by intensifying globalization, international labour mobility has been on the rise in recent decades in the Asia-Pacific region. It seems that, after trade and investment, labour mobility constitutes the final frontier for regional integration among the Asia-Pacific economies. There is no doubt that labour movements are integral to regional economic integration and critical to the long-term health of the regional economies and business operations. .. Notes Print version record Subject Labor mobility -- Asia -- Congresses Labor mobility -- Pacific Area -- Congresses Labor policy -- Asia -- Congresses Labor policy -- Pacific Area -- Congresses Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Labor mobility Labor policy SUBJECT Asia -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- Congresses Pacific Area -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- Congresses Subject Asia Pacific Area Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings Form Electronic book Author Young, Soogil ISBN 9789812308955 9812308954

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