• Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2020

Uzbekistan has been gradually integrating into the world economy since gaining its independence back in 1991. The need to integrate stems from the desire to advance the national economy and social well-being of population through importing advanced technologies or stimulating exports. However, opening up the country also meant exposure to increase in the mobility of its human capital. As a result, Uzbekistan has witnessed labor migration in and out of the country in the past couple of decades, driven by various causes, which is having inevitable social and economic implications for the country. Intensifying processes in contemporary international labor market make migration as a mechanism, which has a back-to-back impact onto and from economic development of a country. From developing countries' perspective, international labor migration is an instrument for reducing tension in national labor markets, decreasing high rates of unemployment and expanding sources of income. From developed countries' perspective, international labor migration helps solve demographic problems like decreasing number of population, aging of population and shortage of labor force. Thus, this processes turned into a mechanism or a system, which is not possible to ignore. Uzbekistan, in particular, is increasing its participation in the international labor market due to its high rates of population growth and young population.

• 동남아시아연구
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.135-178
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• 2010

This study is to seek alternatives for regional governance related to transnational labor migration issues in Southeast Asia. This study examined the present situation and trends of labor migration in the region, reviewed involved transnational issues, and identified the current issues of governance to seek alternatives for regional governance. The increase in cross-border labor migration is no doubt a sign of growth and dynamism of the region and greater integration of their economies. But it also poses complex policy and management issues as well as transnational issues over such as unequal economic profits, illegal migration, human rights, and social security issues. In this reality, regional governance is a very important theme and the efforts to manage their migration inherently involve fundamental conflict and tension between related countries and regions. However, politics and governance of transnational migrant workers in Southeast Asia are still pursued at the national level. To resolve these issues, it is urgently required to secure not only collaboration between the parties concerned but also governance at the regional level. Findings of this study are: First, although labor migration has been a relatively long-time transnational issue, the history of addressing the issue at the regional governance is very short and still inceptive. Second, given its size, labor migration in Southeast Asia requires effective regional governance but no breakthrough was possible due to the conflict of interests between origin and destination countries and the conflict of logic between the labor market and the state. Third, the issue of labor migration is an important element for the formation of economic and socio-cultural communities the ASEAN countries have pursued. Fourth, it is urgently needed to seek alternatives for good and effective regional governance as a key to resolving these issues over migrant workers in Southeast Asia.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.111-140
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• 2020

This paper focuses on the emerging patterns of educational mobility and unskilled labor migration from Uzbekistan to Japan and South Korea. Labor migration and educational mobility are becoming the next "horizon" in the expanded relationship between East and Central Asia, powered by several factors, including the efforts by Japan and South Korea to build "original" people-oriented policy engagements with the region and the demand from Central Asian states, such as Uzbekistan, to provide more labor opportunities to their young and growing populations. This paper presents the initial findings of a pilot survey that explores and occasionally compares the experiences of Uzbek migrants to Japan and South Korea, using datasets of face-to-face interviews related to various aspects of life in Japan and South Korea. The interviews were conducted face to face and online (Telegram, Skype, etc.) with 66 migrants and Japanese language school students (whom this paper treats as labor migrants masquerading as students) in Japan from November 2019 to January 2020 as well as online with 30 laborers and students in South Korea from August to September 2020.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.123-148
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• 2020

본 연구에서는 4년제 대학을 졸업한 학생들의 다양한 지역정보와 임금정보를 포함하고 있는 대졸자이동경로조사(GOMS) 자료를 활용하여 청년층의 생애주기(고등학교-대학교-취업)에 따른 지역이동 관련 '임금수준' 연구를 최초로 분석하였다. 유형별 노동시장의 성과를 종합적으로 살펴본 결과에 의하면, 대졸자 청년층은 거주했던 지역을 떠나 다른 지역으로 이동했을 경우 발생할 수 있는 비용에 대해 높은 임금을 노동시장에서 보상받고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 지역노동시장이 양질의 일자리를 제공할 수 있다면 수도권으로의 인재유출에 대한 시사점을 제공해 준다.

• 수완나부미
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.159-186
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• 2019

Southeast Asia accounts for nearly a tenth of total worldwide cross-border movements of migrant workers. Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, and Philippines make up the sending countries while Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand are the major destinations. Migrant worker movements are predominantly in production process and low- to medium-skilled sectors. It is not unusual for irregular or undocumented movements to take place. In not a few instances, migrants work under harsh and exploitative conditions. In recent years, however, ASEAN has taken steps to manage labor migration at the regional level. The paper argues that ASEAN has not managed these cross-border labor flows as well as it should particularly in terms of protecting and promoting the human rights of migrants. It will be difficult to establish the genuine building blocks for a regional human rights mechanism unless there is a diffusion of alternative universal norms and standards to what ASEAN already embodies. As long as states resist any attempt to weaken or question or deligitimize their capacity to determine who gets to enter, stay, and leave their jurisdictions, it will be difficult to establish an effective migrant rights framework for the region.

• 노동경제논집
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.1-27
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• 2006

최근의 이민은 과거와 달리 숙련노동력이 주도하고 있으며 그 정도가 계속해서 커져가고 있다. 본 논문은 1990~2000년 사이에 발생한 세계 각국에서 OECD 국가로의 이민 흐름 결정요인을 숙련수준별로 분석하는 것을 그 목표로 한다. 이를 위해 최근 공개된 Doquier and Marfouk(2005)의 이민자료로부터 각국의 연평균 이민율을 계산하여 종속변수로 삼았고, 배출국과 유입국의 경제적 지표를 독립변수로 활용하여 횡단면 분석을 실시하였다. 분석 결과 유입국/배출국의 평균적 소득격차, 연쇄이민, 언어와 같이 기존 연구가 밝혀 낸 인구학적 경제적 요인이 고숙련 노동의 이민에도 작용하는 것이 확인되었다. 그러나 고숙련 노동력의 이민은 다른 숙련수준에 비해 배출국의 산업구조, 유입국에서의 숙련수준간 소득격차, 평균수명과 같이 경제구조의 발전 정도에 민감하게 반응하는 것으로 보인다. 특히 소득수준이 향상되면서 구조적 요인의 상대적인 중요성은 더 커진다는 점은 주목할 만하다. 그리고 이민율에 영어 사용이 미치는 영향 역시 고숙련 노동력에서 크게 나타나며, 카리브해와 서아프리카 지역 등에서는 지역적 특수성이 이민율을 높이는 작용을 하는 것으로 보인다. 또한 두뇌유출의 가장 큰 위협을 받는 것은 중간소득 집단에 속한 국가들인 것으로 보인다.

• 한국경제지리학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.114-128
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• 2014

이 연구는 2008년부터 2011년까지의 고용보험통계를 이용하여 경력직 노동력 이동에 대해 16개 시도를 공간단위로 분석한 것이다. 우리나라 임금근로자 중 전체 상용직과 일부 임시 및 일용직 근로자가 고용보험 가입자이고, 이들 중 매년 약 40-50%의 경력직 근로자가 직장을 옮기고 있다. 이러한 고용보험 가입 경력직 노동력의 이동에 대해 첫째 전체 이동 근로자 대상으로 군집분석을 진행하여 그 권역을 탐색하고, 둘째 타 시도로 이동하는 근로자를 추출하고 유출비와 유입비를 이용해 지역 간 이동의 연계와 상호작용을 측정하였다. 분석결과, 이동권역은 지난 정부가 설정했던 5+2 광역경제권과 유사한 군집을 이루었지만, 지역 간 이동에 있어서는 서울과 경기 등 수도권이 나머지 시도에 탁월한 영향력을 미치고 있었다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.421-431
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• 2015

본 연구는 합리적기대에 의한 기대소득 격차를 반영한 Harris-Todaro 모형에 의해 한-중-일 3국간 잠재적 노동인구 이동을 분석하였다. 실증분석 결과에 의하면 한국의 노동시장은 노동인구 유입의 영향력이 약하고, 중국과 일본으로 양방향성의 노동인구 유출이 있는 것으로 나타났다. 중국의 노동시장은 노동인구의 유출입에 미치는 영향력은 약하지만, 한국뿐만 아니라 일본과의 관계에 있어서 노동인구가 유출에서 유입으로 전환되었다. 일본의 노동시장은 일관성 있게 노동인구를 유입시키는 영향력이 있으며, 한국과는 노동인구의 유입, 중국과는 노동인구 유출로 나타났다. 결과적으로 한-중-일 3국간 노동시장은 상호 보완적이기 보다는 대체성이 강한 형태를 유지하고 있다.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.51-90
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• 2020

The city of Sumqayit in Azerbaijan was famous in the USSR for its chemical plants, which supplied the whole country with plastics, detergents, and fertilizers. While production increased in the post-WWII period, young people from remote Caucasian villages were attracted as workers to the industrial settlement on the shore of the Caspian Sea and worked together with specialists from all over the USSR. Migration did not stop when the USSR collapsed. To the contrary, mobility increased as Azerbaijani refugees from Armenia and IDPs from Karabakh fled to Sumqayit, which grew to become the second-largest city of Azerbaijan. Although a generation has passed since the ceasefire, IDPs still are separately administered. In the last 20 years, more and more internal migrants have chosen the Greater Baku Region as their destination, mostly finding jobs in the informal labor market. In the post-independence transformative period, informal housing has offered migrants a place to stay in the city. Sumqayit can be regarded as an arrival city, an established urban platform for migrants who prefer internal over transnational migration.

• 지역연구
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.65-75
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• 1998

Education is widely recognized one of main sources for growth. This paper attempts to incorporate the general recognition into formal regional growth model. The model structure is largely neoclassical. It produces a single good with the two factors, educated labor and non-educated labor, via a constant return production migrating to the region with the higher real wage. The educated labor in a region is accumulated by two sources, migration and physical education capital, while the non-educated labor is by only migration. The paper shows that regional growth equilibrium is characterized as a saddle point. This indicates the presence of the minimum threshold size that must be overcome before a region may grow. It contrasts sharply with results obtained in regional growth models. The paper suggests that regional growth is determined less by the technical characteristics of regional production function characteristics of regional production function but by the stock combination of educated function but by the stock combination of education labor and non-educated labor. Based on this result, the impact of agglomeration economies on regional growth is explored. It is by phase diagram demonstrated that the presence of agglomeration economies do not always lead a region to growth since there still exists the minimum threshold even in the presence of agglomeration economies.