TY - BOOK ID - 85643696 TI - Labour mobility in the Asia-Pacific region : dynamics, issues and a new APEC agenda : a survey and analyses of governance challenges on labour migration for APEC economies AU - Hugo, Graeme AU - Young, Soogil AU - Hanʼguk Tʻaepʻyŏngyang Kyŏngje Hyŏmnyŏk Wiwŏnhoe AU - Institute of Southeast Asian Studies AU - Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Organization) AU - APEC Business Advisory Council PY - 2008 SN - 9812308938 9812308954 9812308946 PB - Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, DB - UniCat KW - Labor mobility KW - Labor policy KW - Labor KW - State and labor KW - Economic policy KW - Mobility, Labor KW - Migration, Internal KW - Labor supply KW - Labor turnover KW - Government policy KW - Asia KW - Pacific Area KW - Asia-Pacific Region KW - Asian-Pacific Region KW - Asian and Pacific Council countries KW - Pacific Ocean Region KW - Pacific Region KW - Pacific Rim KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Eurasia KW - Emigration and immigration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85643696 AB - 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. In reality, however, such movements are much burdened with political and social problems in the labour origin economies as well as the labour destination economies, and yet many of these problems remain not just unaddressed by the relevant governments but not even well studied. The present volume seeks to fill this gap by offering synthesis papers stemming from the studies on international labour migration in twenty Asia-Pacific economies which were discussed at a joint PECC-ABAC conference held in Seoul, Korea, on 25-26 March 2008, organized by KOPEC. These papers examine the demographic transition, the associated pattern of international labour migration, the national policies associated with it as well as their implications for business and the issues they raise, and, finally, the implications of these analyses for cooperation among the APEC governments, for each of the four subregions in the Asia-Pacific, as well as for the whole region. ER -