Skilled labor mobility and migration : challenges and opportunities for the ASEAN economic community Regional integration plays an important role in the advance of economic and social development across many parts of the world. Generating growth and expanding markets it boosts productivity through the exchange of ideas technologies and human resources. This book explores the key vision of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): fostering the free flow of goods services investment and skilled labor in order to establish a globally competitive region with a single market and production base. Bringing together contributions from renowned scholars in their respective fields this book takes stock of the trends and patterns of skilled labor migration in the ASEAN examining the existing literature and adding to it with unique insights drawn from original case studies and policy simulations. Identifying the challenges posed by recent significant changes this book also looks to the future to identify potential policy responses. The contributions dispel a common assumption that skill mobility is a zero sum game and instead contend that it can be mutually beneficial for both sides. With rigorous quantitative analysis this book will be a useful tool for both policy practitioners and policymakers as well as for researchers and students of international development economics and Asian studies Contents: Foreword Preface 1. Trends and patterns in intra ASEAN migration Aiko Kikkawa and Eric B. Suan 2. Skilled migration in the literature: What we know what we think we know and why it matters to know the difference Elisabetta Gentile 3. Economic impacts of skilled labor mobility within the ASEAN economic community Erwin Corong and Angel Aguiar 4. Implications of ASEAN economic integration on services: A global computable general equilibrium analysis Kakali Mukhopadhyay 5. Employment effects of removal of restrictions on the movement of natural persons in the ASEAN banking sector Huong Dinh 6. Skills mobility and postsecondary education in the ASEAN economic community Maki Kato 7. Institutionalized costs and international migration patterns Saibal Kar 8. Expanding skilled worker mobility: Comparing the migration of Indonesian careworkers to Taipei China and Indonesian nurses and careworkers to Japan Ratih Pratiwi Anwar 9. Will ASEAN mutual recognition arrangements induce skilled workers to move A case study of the engineering labor market in Thailand Sasiwimon Warunsiri Paweenawat and Jessica Vechbanyongratana 10. Skill flows and the fourth industrial revolution: Future questions and directions for the ASEAN economic community Anna Fink and Elisabetta Gentile Index.