1. Because labour mobility between industries ensures that wage rates are equated in the two industries.

2. Labour mobility programmes are in an important sense different for they provide aid to labour rather than to industry.

3. Efficiency With labour mobility, inefficiency can arise from fiscal spending in different localities.

4. This is another indication that regional and labour mobility policies are not always in conflict with each other.

5. Clearly the labour mobility programmes have transferred fewer workers than the number of jobs created by regional policies.

6. This ties health insurance to employment, which impedes labour mobility and is unfair to the self-employed and unemployed.

7. The escape valve of labour mobility is half-blocked.

8. Currently, almost everything except labour mobility is up for liberalisation, making the TPP one of the most comprehensive free-trade treaties yet conceived.

9. This is beneficial for labour mobility and helpful to the real economy because additional house sales spur economic activity.

10. A secondary constraint on labour mobility is the system of communication linking employer and worker.

11. The abolition of serfdom would therefore be a necessary precondition of free labour mobility.

12. The introduction of the Resettlement Transfer Scheme in 1948 was the beginning of post-war labour mobility policies.

13. Firstly, harmonisation of national policies, especially in areas where it offers obvious advantages,(/labour mobility.html) e.g. labour mobility.

14. Generally, economic factors such as unemployment rates, trade and capital flows, seem to be the main determinants of labour mobility.

15. ASEAN's nascent free-trade zone also excludes services, and tiptoes around labour mobility.

16. Labour market reforms should help to facilitate appropriate wage-setting, as well as labour mobility across sectors and regions.

17. Thanks partly to the overwhelming dominance of English across North America, labour mobility in the US is between three and 30 times greater than in Europe, depending on how it is measured.

18. The Babel of languages keeps workers pinned down in their own country. The escape valve of labour mobility is half-blocked.