International trade agreements and international migration

Poot, Jacques; Strutt, Anna

International trade agreements and international migration

dc.contributor.author	Poot, Jacques
dc.contributor.author	Strutt, Anna
dc.date.accessioned	2009-05-18T00:05:45Z
dc.date.available	2009-05-18T00:05:45Z
dc.date.issued	2009-04
dc.description.abstract	Despite large potential economic gains to the countries concerned, bilateral and multilateral negotiations regarding liberalization of migration have not had the high profile of trade negotiations and agreements. Migration and trade have been traditionally the prerogative of different ministries, yet there are many interdependencies between international trade, foreign investment and migration. The relevance of these interdependencies for trade negotiations has been remarkably ignored in the literature. In this paper we therefore focus on the two-way interaction between international migration and agreements designed to enhance cross-border trade or investment. Liberalization of international trade in services and the movement of people are likely to offer much more significant economic gains than liberalization of remaining barriers to goods trade. However, progress within multilateral frameworks is fraught with difficulty. Mode IV of GATS is restricted to temporary movement of service employees and has yielded little progress so far. Negotiations within more flexible unilateral and bilateral frameworks are likely to be more successful in liberalizing the movement of labour. We discuss several specific examples and conclude that trade negotiations are increasingly accommodating migration policies that favour temporary migration over permanent migration and that the migration regulatory framework is likely to be further linked to trade and investment over time.	en
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Poot, J. & Strutt, A. (2009). International trade agreements and international migration. (Department of Economics Working Paper Series, Number 06/09). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato.	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10289/2165
dc.language.iso	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Department of Economics Working Paper Series
dc.subject	international trade	en
dc.subject	migration	en
dc.subject	outsourcing	en
dc.subject	temporary workers	en
dc.subject	GATS	en
dc.subject	negotiation	en
dc.title	International trade agreements and international migration	en
dc.type	Working Paper	en
uow.relation.series	06/09