[PDF] Achieving Skill Mobility In The Asean Economic Community eBook

Author : Demetrios G. Papademetriou
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9292571184

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Despite clear aspirations by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to create an effective and transparent framework to facilitate movements among skilled professionals within the ASEAN by December 2015, progress has been slow and uneven. This report examines the challenges ASEAN member states face in achieving the goal of greater mobility for the highly skilled, including hurdles in recognizing professional qualifications, opening up access to certain jobs, and a limited willingness by professionals to move due to perceived cultural, language, and socioeconomic differences. The cost of these barriers is staggering and could reduce the region's competitiveness in the global market. This report launches a multiyear effort by ADB and the Migration Policy Institute to better understand the issues and develop strategies to gradually overcome the problems. It offers a range of policy recommendations that have been discussed among experts in a high-level expert meeting, taking into account best practices locally and across the region.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher :
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 2016-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789292571177

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This report examines the challenges the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states face under the ASEAN Economic Community in achieving the goal of greater mobility for the highly skilled, including hurdles in recognizing professional qualifications, opening up access to certain jobs, and a limited willingness by professionals to move due to perceived cultural, language, and socioeconomic differences. The cost of these barriers is staggering and could reduce the region's competitiveness. This report offers a range of policy recommendations, taking into account best practices locally and across the region.

Author : Elisabetta Gentile
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1788116178

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One of the primary objectives of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), established in 2015, was to boost skilled labor mobility within the region. This insightful book takes stock of the existing trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN. It endeavors to identify the likely winners and losers from the free movement of natural persons within the region through counterfactual policy simulations. Finally, it discusses existing issues and obstacles through case studies, as well as other sectoral examples.

Author : Denis Hew Wei-Yen
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9812303472

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At the Ninth ASEAN Summit in Bali on 7 October 2003, the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations agreed to establish an ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2020. It is envisaged that the AEC would be a single market and production base, with a free flow of goods and services, investments, capital and skilled labour. An integrated ASEAN with a sizeable market of over 500 million people could become an alternative to China as a regional production base for MNCs. Although there are roadmaps for the fast-track integration of eleven priority sectors, an overall longer-term roadmap needs to be formulated to realize the AEC. This book addresses the main issues.

Author : ASEAN Studies Centre
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9812309322

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On 28 July 2008, the ASEAN Studies Centre and the Regional Economic Studies Programme, both of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung organized a roundtable on The ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint. The brainstorming session gathered Southeast Asian experts from the region to discuss the AEC Blueprint, which ASEANs leaders had adopted at their summit meeting in November 2007, and the prospects of any obstacles to its implementation by the target year, 2015. The roundtable started with a progress report on the AEC Blueprint given by S. Pushpanathan, Principal Director of Economic Integration and Finance, ASEAN Secretariat, Jakarta. Thereafter, the sessions examined the various aspects of the Blueprint tackling the non-tariff barriers, designing a comprehensive ASEAN Investment Agreement, a regional framework for competition policy, the role of infrastructure development in economic integration, the importance of international production networks in economic integration, etc.

Author : Philip Martin
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN :

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The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) is moving towards closer economic integration among its Member States, including the free mobility of professionals and highly skilled workers. The freer flow of goods and capital will place path dependence, which encourages firms that already hire migrant workers to expand, in competition with wage convergence, which will reduce incentives for international labour migration. Most current AEC migrants are low skilled and most new migrants are likely to be low skilled. Governments need to acknowledge this reality and develop policies to liberalize and regularize the cross-border movements of labour. They cause mutual recognition agreements to promote the movement of professionals, and regulate the recruitment and employment of migrant workers, to ensure that migrant and local workers are treated equally. Demographic and economic realities suggest international labour migration within the AEC will increase making the implementation of the 2007 ASEAN Declaration on the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers imperative, to ensure that labour migration promotes cooperation rather than conflict between AEC Member States.

Author : ADBI
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 37,6 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 4899740522

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This book investigates long-term development issues for members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). It finds that with the proper policy mix—including domestic structural reforms and bold initiatives for regional integration—ASEAN has the potential to reach by 2030 the average quality of life enjoyed today in advanced economies and to fulfill its aspirations to become a resilient, inclusive, competitive, and harmonious (RICH) region. Key challenges moving forward are to enhance macroeconomic and financial stability, support equitable growth, promote competitiveness and innovation, and protect the environment. Overcoming these challenges to build a truly borderless economic region implies eliminating remaining barriers to the flow of goods, services, and production factors; strengthening competitiveness and the institutional framework; and updating some governing principles. But ASEAN should not merely copy the European Union. It must maintain its flexibility and pragmatism without creating a bloated regional bureaucracy. The study’s main message is that through closer integration, ASEAN can form a partnership for achieving shared prosperity in the region and around the globe.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher : Asian Development Bank
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9292695711

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The Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific (JFPR) is a partnership between the Government of Japan and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). It helps people move above the poverty threshold and toward sustainable prosperity and resilience. This guide illustrates the requirements stipulated in the JFPR Implementation Guidelines. It provides best practices, examples, tips, and suggestions to help JFPR users and clients tailor proposals to the fund’s requirements to ensure smooth project processing and efficient implementation.

Author : ILO Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific. Tripartite Action for the Protection and Promotion of the Rights of Migrant Workers (ASEAN TRIANGLE Project)
Publisher :
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9789221285946

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This scoping and assessment study was carried out to review the status of activities on the AEC in ASEAN countries in relation to the goal of the free flow of skilled labour with respect to the mutual recognition agreements and core competencies developed for job/occupations in priority sectors. The study identifies issues and challenges in implementing AEC goals on recognizing the skills of migrant worker and analyses the current skills standards and national testing and certification system that it is in place for implementing the mutual recognition for skilled labour and promoting worker mobility throughout ASEAN.

Author : Asian Development Bank
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 10,79 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789292577315

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The goal of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of encouraging intraregional mobility must be understood in the context of changing population dynamics, rising educational levels and aspirations, and increasingly dynamic-if complex-economic forces. This report explores the forces that are poised to transform the supply, demand, and mobility of skilled professionals across ASEAN, and the unique opportunities their convergence presents for human capital development and brain circulation within Southeast Asia. It draws on the insights of nearly 400 ASEAN and member state officials, private sector employers, training directors, and others who participated in focus group discussions, meetings, and surveys.