title: Asian labour mobility:  new dimensions and implications for development.
abstract: The author "argues that the rise of organized labour migration has introduced a new structural feature in the international labour market.... This new factor....contributes to making labour supply highly elastic during upswings in demand for expatriate labour....[and] makes for inelasticity during periods of weakening demand because of its 'stockpiling effect' on labour supply."  The impacts on migrants' wages and on the labor forces of labor-exporting countries are considered.  The focus is on Asian labor migration to the Middle East.  Separate comments by M. Irfan and Nadeem A. Burney are included (pp. 378-81).
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Abella
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D000352:Africa, Northern; D001208:Asia; D001211:Asia, Western; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D006280:Health Workforce; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Africa; Asia; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Human Resources; International Migration; Labor Force; Macroeconomic Factors; Manpower Needs; Migrants; Migration; Northern Africa; Population; Population Dynamics; Wages; Western Asia