Migration, Free Trade and Regional Integration in North America
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789264163812
Subjects: Social Issues/Migration/Health
Description: Trade liberalisation is necessary but not sufficient to provide the conditions under which migration flows are significantly reduced. Co-ordinated measures must therefore be undertaken to promote technological catch-up, the development of physical infrastructure and investment in human capital. Against a background of sustained development accompanied by significant employment creation, the incentive to emigrate could decline. This publication explores the links between trade liberalisation and migration movements in North America and discusses the issue of whether the free circulation of persons accompany the successive stages of regional economic integration or whether it is an important objective to be achieved only once economic convergence has reached a sufficiently high level. The authors conclude that restrictions on movement are likely to continue into the future and that the lack of free movement does not constitute an obstacle to regional economic integration. Within this context, the need for balanced migration policies which take account of concerns about the economic consequences and social welfare of both sending and receiving countries will remain on the agenda for the foreseeable future.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. Regional Integration in North America; title: Demographic situation, employment, and economic performance in North America by Cecile Thoreau and Tania Paracini; title: Globalisation, economic growth, and the labour market in North America by Norma Samaniego; title: Part II. Migration in Policy in North America: Policies and Sectoral Economic Impacts; title: A. Perspectives in migration policy; title: Migration trends and policies in the United States by B. Lindsay Lowell; title: Migration trends and policies in Canada by Roderic Beaujot; title: The impact of migration on economic development in Mexico by Gustavo Verduzco and Kurt Unger; title: B. Sectoral economic impacts; title: Migration and the labour market: sectoral and regional effects in the United States by Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz; title: Migration and the labour market: sectora and regional effects in Canada by Don J. De Voretz and Samuel A. Laryea; title: Migration and the labour marketL sector and regional effects in Mexico by Rodolfo Cruz Pineiro; title: Part III. Links Between Free Trade, Investment, and Migration; title: A. Perspectives on the North American Free Trade Agreement; title: NAFTA, foreign direct investment and economic integration: a United States approach by Sidney Weintraub; title: NAFTA, foreign direct investment, and economic integration: a Mexican approach by Fernando de Mateo Venturini; title: B. Modeling Results: NAFTA and North American Integration; title: Applied general equilibrium models: the Mexican experience of NAFTA by Horacio Sobarzo Fimbres; title: Economic effects of NAFTA: employment and migration modeling results by Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda, robert McCleery and Fernando De Paolis; title: Part IV. Broader Perspectives on Migration and Regional Integration; title: Migration policies in a f ree trade area: the issue of convergence with the economic integration process by Francisco Alba, Jean-Pierre Garson, and El Mouhoub Mouhoud; title: New directions for managing US-Mexican migration by Demetrios Papademetriou