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Labour Mobility (labour + mobility)
Selected AbstractsLABOUR MOBILITY AND TRANS-TASMAN CURRENCY UNION,AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC PAPERS, Issue 1 2006ADAM CREIGHTONArticle first published online: 7 MAR 200 The prospect of a common currency for Australia and New Zealand has been canvassed by senior poli-ticians and bureaucrats, and has been the subject of academic debate. According to Mundell (1961), a high degree of internal labour mobility is a desirable feature of currency unions. This study looks at the extent to which long-term migration between Australia and New Zealand responds to output shocks. Estimated VAR models and panel Granger-causality tests demonstrate that shocks to relative per capita output have a significant and symmetrical impact on migration flows between Australia and New Zealand, and most of the impact is felt after about one year. Separating the shocks to Australia and New Zealand shows that ,pull' effects are more important than ,push' effects. Additionally, the trajectory of the Australian economy proves particularly influential for the choice of New Zealand emigrants. Although permanent migration responds intuitively to the state of the economy in Australia and New Zealand, the level of these migration flows is low in comparison to Australian inter-state migration; yet it is high in relation to any third country. [source] Critical Events and Labour Mobility: Relocations in the Wake of the Ansett Airlines CollapseGEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2009SALLY WELLER Abstract Migration plays an important role in neo-liberal regional adjustment. This paper explores the role of economic shocks in stimulating internal migration within Australia. Drawing on the experiences of retrenched Ansett Airlines employees, it argues that economic crisis impels some households to relocate but traps others in places with restricted employment prospects. For some, the crisis of retrenchment triggers inter-state migration to take up new jobs. For others, it prompts relocation to less expensive housing, often in a geographically proximate location. These opposing responses, which are different outcomes of similar causal processes, exacerbate regional inequalities since they selectively encourage younger skilled workers to enter growing regions. The combination of high housing costs and insecure employment discourages speculative migration. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the policy implications of these findings. [source] Labour Mobility: An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?GERMAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 2 2001Empirical Evidence for Western Germany, France, Italy We evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. As no adequate data on cross-border migration are available, migration elasticities within nation states (Western Germany, France and Italy) are estimated and interpreted as upper bounds for cross-border migration elasticities between European nation states. Labour mobility is highest in Germany, followed by France and Italy. However, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by migration takes several years. We conclude that labour mobility is unlikely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism to asymmetric shocks in Euroland. [source] Building Sustainable Communities: Spatial Policy and Labour Mobility in Post-War Britain by Mike RacoJOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 5 2008Kim McKee No abstract is available for this article. [source] Labour Mobility in the Asia-Pacific Region: dynamics, issues and a new APEC agenda , Edited by Graeme Hugo and Soogil YoungASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIC LITERATURE, Issue 1 2010Philip Martin No abstract is available for this article. [source] Labour Mobility: An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?GERMAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 2 2001Empirical Evidence for Western Germany, France, Italy We evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. As no adequate data on cross-border migration are available, migration elasticities within nation states (Western Germany, France and Italy) are estimated and interpreted as upper bounds for cross-border migration elasticities between European nation states. Labour mobility is highest in Germany, followed by France and Italy. However, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by migration takes several years. We conclude that labour mobility is unlikely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism to asymmetric shocks in Euroland. [source] Labour mobility and rural society edited by ARJAN DE HAAN and BEN ROGALY. (London: Frank Cass, 2002, pp.JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, Issue 5 2003No abstract is available for this article. [source] Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries1THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION, Issue 2 2006Fabian Bornhorst transition; regional unemployment; mobility Abstract We look at the differences in regional unemployment rates in six major transition countries and their persistence over time. We analyse the role various adjustment mechanisms play. While movement out of the labour force seems to be one consequence in many regions with high relative unemployment, there are also signs of emerging wage flexibility. Employment creation, by contrast, has not picked up in regions of high unemployment. Labour mobility also remains very limited in size although it appears to respond to basic economic incentives. Policies addressing housing market imperfections and information asymmetries are necessary to increase worker mobility and to integrate better national labour markets. [source] Labour Mobility: An Adjustment Mechanism in Euroland?GERMAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 2 2001Empirical Evidence for Western Germany, France, Italy We evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. As no adequate data on cross-border migration are available, migration elasticities within nation states (Western Germany, France and Italy) are estimated and interpreted as upper bounds for cross-border migration elasticities between European nation states. Labour mobility is highest in Germany, followed by France and Italy. However, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by migration takes several years. We conclude that labour mobility is unlikely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism to asymmetric shocks in Euroland. [source] MIND THE GAP: UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE NEW EU REGIONSJOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SURVEYS, Issue 1 2008Anna Maria Ferragina Abstract The paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on regional unemployment during transition in Central and Eastern Europe. The focus is on optimal speed of transition (OST) models and on comparison of them with the neo-classical tradition. In the typical neo-classical models, spatial differences essentially arise as a consequence of supply side constraints and institutional rigidities. Slow-growth, high-unemployment regions are those with backward economic structures and constraints on factors mobility contribute to making differences persistent. However, such explanations leave the question unanswered of how unemployment differences arise in the first place. Economic transition provides an excellent testing ground to answer this question. Pre-figuring an empirical law, the OST literature finds that the high degree of labour turnover of high unemployment regions is associated with a high rate of industrial restructuring and, consequently, that low unemployment may be achieved by implementing transition more gradually. Moreover, international trade, foreign direct investment and various agglomeration factors help explain the success of capital cities compared to peripheral towns and rural areas in achieving low unemployment. The evidence of the empirical literature on supply side factors suggests that wage flexibility in Central and Eastern Europe is not lower than in other EU countries, while labour mobility seems to reinforce rather than change the spatial pattern of unemployment. [source] China's regional income disparity An alternative way to think of the sources and causes1THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION, Issue 1 2008Ding Lu Factor mobility; regional income inequality; China Abstract Using data on China's provincial economies for the period 1978,2005, we decomposed the causes and factors that have contributed to inter-regional per capita income disparity. Variance in capital per employee and variance in capital elasticity are found to be the two main sources of income disparity while the employment,labour force ratio is shown to be an important factor in containing the rise of income disparity. An analysis on inter-regional factor reallocation effects reveals their relatively small and insignificant contributions to overall growth performance. It is also discovered that capital has in most years flowed in the right direction to pursue higher marginal productivity across provincial economies. Inter-provincial labour movement, on the other hand, had not displayed significant equilibrating effects until institutional reforms started to allow freer inter-regional labour mobility in later years. Generally, we conclude that market-oriented factor mobility has played a crucial role in equalizing factor returns as well as enhancing growth efficiency across regions. [source] INTERNATIONAL AND INTRA-NATIONAL TRADE: A CONTINUUM APPROACH,THE JAPANESE ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 3 2009SUGATA MARJIT We build up a Ricardian trade model with multiple regions within a nation and examine how international trade determines interregional patterns of production and specialization. We show that the degree of interregional concentration of economic activities moves in different directions in two trading nations. The role of "absolute advantage" becomes crucial in dictating the course of income disparity across regions. We discuss cases with varying degrees of labour mobility and reconfirm the result on post-trade interregional concentration and dispersion. Later we explore the impact of "scale factor" in this model and show how principle of comparative advantage and economies of scale interact to determine the pattern of specialization and volume of trade. [source] Building sustainable communities: spatial policy and labour mobility in post-war Britain, by Mike RacoAREA, Issue 1 2008Katie McClymont No abstract is available for this article. [source] LABOUR MOBILITY AND TRANS-TASMAN CURRENCY UNION,AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC PAPERS, Issue 1 2006ADAM CREIGHTONArticle first published online: 7 MAR 200 The prospect of a common currency for Australia and New Zealand has been canvassed by senior poli-ticians and bureaucrats, and has been the subject of academic debate. According to Mundell (1961), a high degree of internal labour mobility is a desirable feature of currency unions. This study looks at the extent to which long-term migration between Australia and New Zealand responds to output shocks. Estimated VAR models and panel Granger-causality tests demonstrate that shocks to relative per capita output have a significant and symmetrical impact on migration flows between Australia and New Zealand, and most of the impact is felt after about one year. Separating the shocks to Australia and New Zealand shows that ,pull' effects are more important than ,push' effects. Additionally, the trajectory of the Australian economy proves particularly influential for the choice of New Zealand emigrants. Although permanent migration responds intuitively to the state of the economy in Australia and New Zealand, the level of these migration flows is low in comparison to Australian inter-state migration; yet it is high in relation to any third country. [source] | |||||||||||||