Download or read book Barriers to Cross border Labor Mobility for Professionals Doing Business in Canada and the United States written by Lynn Shotwell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 Beyond the Border (BTB) Action Plan advanced a bold vision for strategic cooperation between the United States and Canada, building on previous free-trade agreements and joint programs to enhance security and promote trade. A decade after September 11, both governments still struggle to balance securing their common borders with promoting international trade. Although the BTB plan recognizes a number of modern challenges (the threat of cyber-attacks) and endorses modern solutions (risk-based Trusted Trade and Trusted Traveler programs) to simultaneously advance national security and trade, it proffers a modest and traditional approach to achieving the stated objective of increased labor mobility - the flow of workers and jobs - between the two countries.
Download or read book Barriers to Cross border Labor Mobility for Professionals Doing Business in Canada and the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 Beyond the Border (BTB) Action Plan advanced a bold vision for strategic cooperation between the United States and Canada, building on previous free-trade agreements and joint programs to enhance security and promote trade. A decade after September 11, both governments still struggle to balance securing their common borders with promoting international trade. Although the BTB plan recognizes a number of modern challenges (the threat of cyber-attacks) and endorses modern solutions (risk-based Trusted Trade and Trusted Traveler programs) to simultaneously advance national security and trade, it proffers a modest and traditional approach to achieving the stated objective of increased labor mobility - the flow of workers and jobs - between the two countries.
Download or read book Knowledge Borders written by Kathrine E. Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key sections of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal with temporary labor mobility. Ideally, NAFTA status provisions should make the temporary movement of professionals easier across the border of all NAFTA countries. However, in the case of some key sectors, it is arguably not the case. Within the context of recent literature on cross-border trade, city regions, regionalism, international labor mobility, and post-September 11 security measures, this book probes the dynamics of transitory immigration of 'knowledge-workers' between the North American west coast city regions of Vancouver, Seattle, and the greater San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley area. This book includes in-depth interviews with Canadian and US immigration officials, immigration attorneys and executives and professional staff of new technology firms and Fortune 500 companies. It ultimately explores whether or not the Canada-US border is an impediment to the development of a cross-border high-tech clusters.
Download or read book Knowledge Borders written by Kathrine E. Richardson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key sections of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal with temporary labor mobility. Ideally, NAFTA status provisions should make the temporary movement of professionals easier across the border of all NAFTA countries. However, in the case of some key sectors, it is arguably not the case. Within the context of recent literature on cross-border trade, city regions, regionalism, international labor mobility, and post-September 11 security measures, this book probes the dynamics of transitory immigration of ‘knowledge-workers’ between the North American west coast city regions of Vancouver, Seattle, and the greater San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley area. This book includes in-depth interviews with Canadian and US immigration officials, immigration attorneys and executives and professional staff of new technology firms and Fortune 500 companies. It ultimately explores whether or not the Canada–US border is an impediment to the development of a cross-border high-tech clusters.
Download or read book Cross Border Labor Mobility written by Caf Dowlah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive review of cross-border labor mobility from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. The book covers African and Amerindian slaveries, indentured servitude of the Indians and the Chinese, guestworker programs, and contemporary labor migration focusing on the United States, the European Union, and the Gulf Region. The book highlights the economics and politics that condition such trends and patterns by addressing growing anti-immigrant sentiments, as well as restrictive measures in the developed world, and outlines inexorable forces that are likely to propel further expansion of cross-border mobility in the future. This multidisciplinary volume provides a highly dependable scholarly reference to researchers, students, academics as well as policy makers.
Download or read book The Question of Skill in Cross Border Labour Mobilities written by Gracia Liu-Farrer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selecting migrants based on skill has become a widely practised migration policy in many countries around the world. Since the late 20th century, research on 'skilled' and 'highly skilled' migration has raised important questions about the value and ethics of skill-based labour mobility. More recent research has begun to question the concept of skill and skill categorisation in both government policy and academic research. Taking the view that 'skills' are socially constructed categories and highly malleable concepts in practice, this edited volume centres the discussion on the following questions: Who are the arbitrators of skill? What constitutes skill? And how is skill constructed in the migration process and in turn, how does skill affect the mobility? The empirical studies in this volume show that diverse actors are involved in the process of identifying, evaluating and shaping migrant skill. The interpretation of migrants' skill is frequently distorted by their ascriptive characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender and nationality, reflecting the influence of colonial legacy, global inequality as well as social stratification. Finally, this edited volume emphasises the complex, and frequently reciprocal, relationship between skill and mobility. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of Sociology, Human Geography, Politics, Social Anthropology, Economics, and Social Work. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Download or read book The Canada US Border in the 21st Century written by John B. Sutcliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borders are critical to the development and survival of modern states, offer security against external threats, and mark public policy and identity difference. At the same time, borders, and borderlands, are places where people, ideas, and economic goods meet and intermingle. The United States-Canada border demonstrates all of the characteristics of modern borders, and epitomises the debates that surround them. This book examines the development of the US-Canada border, provides a detailed analysis of its current operation, and concludes with an evaluation of the border’s future. The central objective is to examine how the border functions in practice, presenting a series of case studies on its operation. This book will be of interest to scholars of North American integration and border studies, and to policy practitioners, who will be particularly interested in the case studies and what they say about the impact of border reform.
Download or read book Interior Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2017 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 1380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Economic Law and the Challenges of the Free Zones written by Julien Chaisse and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special economic zones (SEZs) have become a permanent feature of the world trade scene. This book, the first to provide a critical and comprehensive analysis of SEZs covering a wide spectrum of countries and regions, shows how SEZs, albeit established at the domestic level by different countries, raise multiple legal issues under international economic law. This first-rate book is the product of the Asia FDI Forum IV held in Hong Kong in 2018. Thoroughly exploring the development of the SEZ phenomenon and its players, the contributing authors (all leading economic law experts) review the issues raised by SEZs in the context of international trade law, international investment law and investment arbitration. They identify the extent to which SEZs have been coherent in their design and policymaking, in particular with regard to domestic law reforms. They address such aspects (both core themes and specific examples) as the following: investment protection in China’s SEZs; state-owned enterprises regulation; dispute settlement; under what circumstances incentives available in SEZs count as export subsidies prohibited under World Trade Organization (WTO) rules; compliance with internal market rules in European Union (EU) free zones; local populations as victims of land expropriation; Brazil’s Manaus Free Trade Zone; India’s experience with multiple SEZs; the administrative approval system in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone; economic corridors and transit routes as SEZs; ‘refugee cities’: SEZs for migrants; how China’s Supreme People’s Court serves national strategy; how foreign investors challenge free-zone regimes; impacts of the establishment of SEZs on tax revenues; SEZs and labour migration; and management models. The chapters also include insights into the new emerging generation of international investment agreements; WTO accession, transparency, and case law materials clarifying specific trade issues associated with SEZs; and new rules to protect the environment and labour rights, as well as analysis of crucially significant cases such as Goetz v. The Republic of Burundi, Lee Jong Baek v. Kyrgyzstan and Ampal-American and Others v. Egypt. With its critical and comprehensive analysis of the dynamic SEZ phenomenon across legal, economic, investment, regulatory and policy matrices – including a thorough analysis of the success factors and required policies for SEZs – this book takes a giant step towards answering the question whether SEZs fundamentally contradict norms of international law or whether SEZs have to be considered as laboratories which facilitate the implementation of international economic policies. Its careful examination of theory and practice and its approach to lessons learned from case studies will reward trade and investment officials, policymakers, diplomats, economists, lawyers, think tanks, business leaders and others interested in this ever more important area of law and economics.
Download or read book Understanding the Canada US Border s Impact on the Movement of People to Support the Movement of Goods and Ideas Under and Beyond the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA written by Kathrine Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is now more than fifteen years old. Chapter 16 of the NAFTA has been heralded as "greasing the skids" between Canada and the United States when it comes to sending business people across the border for temporary visits, but recently completed studies on the Canada-US border are providing quantifiable and anecdotal evidence that since September 11, 2001, and especially since the global recession beginning in mid-2008, businesses are facing added challenges. There is a need to take stock of the issues that impact temporary cross-border business travelers, and to identify best practices. A literature review plus research involving semi-structured interviews was conducted in early 2011. A range of North American firms, professional immigration attorneys and professional associations were interviewed, plus US Department of Homeland Security port-of-entry officers, the Canada Border Services Agency, and key senior NAFTA policy experts based in Ottawa and Washington. Finally, insights were explored on how to improve the Canada-US cross border when it comes to facilitating flows of business professionals.
Download or read book Interior Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2015 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Business America written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles on international business opportunities.
Download or read book Labour Mobility and Trade in the Americas written by Barbara MacLaren and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bridging the Gap Between Supply and Demand written by Alexander Both and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose for this Master Case Study is to contribute to the scientific research in the field of labor mobility in cross-border regions. The study is using a comprehensive literature and theory review and its first purpose is to confirm the theoretical aspects in the case of the Strasbourg-Ortenau region. Nevertheless, this work intends to go a step further and to add an additional component to the existing research, the institutional awareness factor. It describes the degree of awareness of potential cross-border workers towards institutions that provide support in the context of cross-border labor mobility. Therefore, the second purpose of our work is to evaluate whether institutions have the capability to increase the willingness of French students to become cross border workers in Germany. This case study is structured into qualitative and quantitative research. While the first one is executed through experts' interviews of cross-border institutions, the latter one is composed of two surveys distributed among companies in the German border region and students in the metropolitan area of Strasbourg. We chose the sample of students since this group has been poorly covered in the academic literature so far. Furthermore, the chosen sample may be appealing in the light of the experts' shortage on the German labor market. With the information acquired, our purpose is to deliver a comprehensive image of the current situation of labor mobility, both in general terms and for the specific case of the Strasbourg-Ortenau region. Further, we want to use the information to analyze, in a statistical manner, whether or not a relationship between the institutional awareness and the willingness to work in the Ortenau region exists. Regarding the statistical analysis of this aspect, the underlying data of the study was able to confirm a significant, but limited, relationship. Furthermore, we were able to eventually prove some aspects of the literature for the case of the Strasbourg Ortenau Region. Especially the obstacles (i.e. the factors hindering labor mobility) can be identified in our survey in a similar way to those stated in the academic literature. Our findings provide an insight for companies who want to optimize their recruiting process, highlighting more effective recruiting channels. Also, it can be helpful for institutions as well, that offer a broad range of consultancy services, but are poorly known by companies and students in the region.
Download or read book Register of United States Barriers to Trade written by Canada. External Affairs and International Trade Canada and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working Through Barriers written by Irena Kogan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role that institutional characteristics of host countries play in labour market integration of immigrants in the European Union. Drawing on existing research, it develops a comprehensive conceptual framework of factors and underlying mechanisms which affect immigrant integration in the fifteen nations that comprise the European Union. The author analyzes selected EU countries in depth, investigating the extent to which immigrants have succeeded or failed in different institutional contexts.
