Labour mobility in the European Union: What can ASEAN learn?

摘要

Ensuring free flow of skilled labour among member states is a necessary step in ASEAN's effort to establish the ASEAN economic community (AEC) and to transform the region into a single market and production base. In this regard, the paper explores the European Union (EU) labour mobility regime in order to draw lessons for ASEAN. After examining the EU legal framework as well as its differentiated integration mechanism to accommodate the diversity among member states, the paper proposes some possible enhancements for the ASEAN legal framework to enable effective intra-regional flow of skilled labour in the AEC.