2007 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on European Union Policy Choices between Free Movement of Capital and that of Labour
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17530220
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic policy
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| Research Institution | Akita University of Economics and Law |
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Principal Investigator |
HONDA Masako Akita University of Economics and Law, Economics, Associate Professor (50306073)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2007
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| Keywords | Economic Policy / Labor Mobility / Capital Mobility |
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| Research Abstract |
This study is based on my past three-year study from 2002-2004 supported by Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists and looks into the same subject from a different angle. I published two papers as an achievement of this study. The first paper points out that although both capital mobility and labour mobility are very important factors for EU to identify itself, it has been really difficult to control capital movement due to acceleration of "Globalization", while labour migration is relatively easy to be managed, and therefore, controlling labour mobility is rather selected than capital mobility by policy makers of either a member country or EU, as an instrument to identify a space governed. However, real power to organize domestic labour market is still in the possession of each member country, which makes an attempt by EU frustrated. The second paper is specially focused on tourism. Tourism sector has been more and more important for EU to achieve economic growth and reduce unemployment, since manufacture sector has been declined in developed countries. The paper summarize features of EU labour market in tourism sector and development of EU tourism policy, and points out that development of this sector is closely related with institutional development of EU, network created by trans-European activity of multinational corporations, policy change facilitating free movement of EU citizens, and geographical enlargement of EU.
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