The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?

This article discusses options to facilitate movement of workers between high-income and developing countries within the framework of trade agreements, focusing on the European Union's partnership agreements with neighbouring countries. Existing frameworks for co-operation offer the possibility...

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Main Authors:	Hoekman, Bernard, Ozden, Caglar
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 Economic Integration F150 International Migration F220 Geographic Labor Mobility Immigrant Workers J610 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5841

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spelling	okr-10986-58412021-04-23T14:02:23Z The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration? Hoekman, Bernard Ozden, Caglar Country and Industry Studies of Trade F140 Economic Integration F150 International Migration F220 Geographic Labor Mobility Immigrant Workers J610 International Linkages to Development Role of International Organizations O190 This article discusses options to facilitate movement of workers between high-income and developing countries within the framework of trade agreements, focusing on the European Union's partnership agreements with neighbouring countries. Existing frameworks for co-operation offer the possibility of expanding temporary rather than longer-term or permanent movement of workers since extant trade agreements provide scope for negotiating specific market access commitments for services, including those delivered through the cross-border movement of natural persons. Even though the potential for such 'embodied' trade in services will not be anywhere near what would be associated with substantial liberalization of migration regimes, furthering the services trade dimension in the European Union's trade agreements offers significant potential Pareto gains. For the partner countries these gains from temporary movement of service providers are both direct--through greater employment and revenue from providing services in the European Union--and indirect--by helping to increase and sustain higher growth at home. 2012-03-30T07:34:48Z 2012-03-30T07:34:48Z 2010 Journal Article Journal of Common Market Studies 00219886 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5841 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article Europe and Central Asia Middle East and North Africa
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description	This article discusses options to facilitate movement of workers between high-income and developing countries within the framework of trade agreements, focusing on the European Union's partnership agreements with neighbouring countries. Existing frameworks for co-operation offer the possibility of expanding temporary rather than longer-term or permanent movement of workers since extant trade agreements provide scope for negotiating specific market access commitments for services, including those delivered through the cross-border movement of natural persons. Even though the potential for such 'embodied' trade in services will not be anywhere near what would be associated with substantial liberalization of migration regimes, furthering the services trade dimension in the European Union's trade agreements offers significant potential Pareto gains. For the partner countries these gains from temporary movement of service providers are both direct--through greater employment and revenue from providing services in the European Union--and indirect--by helping to increase and sustain higher growth at home.
format	Journal Article
author	Hoekman, Bernard Ozden, Caglar
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title	The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?
title_short	The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?
title_full	The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?
title_fullStr	The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?
title_full_unstemmed	The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?
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The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership : Trade in Services as an Alternative to Migration?

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