Labour Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Region : : Dynamics, Issues and a New APEC Agenda / / ed. by Graeme Hugo, Soogil Young.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Badkar, Juthika,; Callister, Paul,; Hugo, Graeme,; Hur, Jai-Joon,; Magsaysay-Ho, Doris,; Morrison, Charles E.,; Stephenson, Sherry,; Young, Soogil,; Yue, Chia Siow,
• HerausgeberIn: Hugo, Graeme,; Young, Soogil,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (258 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; 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 --; Chapter 2. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in Northeast Asia – Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation --; Chapter 3. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in Southeast Asia – Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation --; Chapter 4. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in Australasia – Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation --; Chapter 5. Demographic Change and International Labour Mobility in the Pacific Americas – Issues, Policies and Implications for Cooperation --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789812308955; 9783110649772; 9783111024707; 9783110663006; 9783110606683
• DOI: 10.1355/9789812308955
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Graeme Hugo, Soogil Young.

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.