Labor or worker mobility is the geographical and occupational movement of workers.
Impediments to mobility are easily divided into two distinct classes with one being personal and the other being systemic. Personal impediments include physical
location
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, and physical and mental ability. The systemic impediments include
education
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al opportunities as well as various laws and political contrivances and even barriers and hurdles arising from historical happenstance.
Increasing and maintaining a high level of
labor
Labour or labor may refer to:
* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
** Organized labour and the la ...
mobility allows a more
efficient allocation of resources and greater productivity.
International labor mobility
International labor mobility is the movement of workers between countries.
It is an example of an
international factor movement. The movement of laborers is based on a difference in resources between countries.
According to economists, over time the migration of labor should have an equalizing effect on wages, with workers in the same industries garnering the same wage.
See also
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Relocation service
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Human resources
Human resources (HR) is the set of people who make up the workforce of an organization, business sector, industry, or economy. A narrower concept is human capital, the knowledge and skills which the individuals command. Similar terms include ...
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Global mobility
Global workforce refers to the international labor pool of workers, including those employed by multinational companies and connected through a global system of networking and production, foreign workers, transient migrant workers, remote workers ...
References
External links
European Commission'Study on workers'mobility : Short-term international assignments - Final Report 2009
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Labour economics