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Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN : Themes from a Six-Country Study
Aniceto Orbeta, Jr.; Gonzales, Kathrina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The study presents a summary of the six-country study on managing international labor migration in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)3. The countries are grouped into sending (Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines) and receiving (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand). The objective was to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277965
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277966
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Managing International Labor Migration in ASEAN : Themes from a Six-Country Study
Aniceto Orbeta, Jr.; Gonzales, Kathrina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The study presents a summary of the six-country study on managing international labor migration in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)3. The countries are grouped into sending (Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines) and receiving (Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand). The objective was to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278180
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. It is shown there are significant differences in wages and human development measures to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278236
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651620
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651623
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Impact of Services Trade Liberalization on Employment and People Movement in South Asia
Chanda, Rupa - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
Services have been a key driver of overall economic growth in South Asia since the 1990s. This paper examines how the growth of services output, trade and investment have affected service sector employment in South Asia and the extent to which countries in this region are proactively undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651631
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Economic Impact of International Migration and Remittances on Philippine Households : What We Thought We Knew, What We Need to Know
Jr, Aniceto C. Orbeta - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
Several studies on the impact of international migration and remittances on household outcomes have been released recently. Many were found to have conflicting results. This paper attempts to shed light on the conflicting results by reviewing the empirical studies that use large scale and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363637
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Trade, diaspora and migration to New Zealand
Law, David; Genc, Murat; Bryant, John - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
countries. One particularly topical area of policy discussion is the role of immigration in promoting economic growth. New … Zealand has long been reliant on immigration to boost its population and to fill gaps in the labour market. And many Kiwis … consider how people movements might affect the New Zealands exports and imports of goods and services, and thus how immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365128
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Negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement : Evaluation and Implications for East Asian Regionalism
Cheong, Inkyo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement seems to have reached a crossroads : it could either be a building block toward achieving economic integration in Asia and the Pacific, or trigger the formation of two large trade blocs which will work independently of one another. When the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278104