Mobility
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This approach was also deemed to yield collateral benefits, from enhancing internal social
mobility
to reducing the risk of violent conflict among countries.
It will need to adapt intelligently to innovations in artificial intelligence, Big Data, and
mobility.
In a new study that surveys and updates the economics literature, Arvind Subramanian, Olivier Jeanne, and John Williamson conclude that “the international community should not seek to promote totally free trade in assets – even over the long run – because…free capital
mobility
seems to have little benefit in terms of long-run growth.”
This calls for a major training effort, support for mobility, incentives to accept job offers, and the opening of sheltered sectors.
Higher growth rates are particularly good for smaller businesses and startups, which in turn are a major contributor to economic
mobility.
Recent low growth rates have made potential entrepreneurs far more reluctant to move across states or to change jobs, and have reduced economic
mobility
in general.
In this age of global mobility, countries, too, go head to head in the battle for talent.
Japan and South Korea, for example, extended public services in their fast-growing urban areas without restricting
mobility.
Their embrace of autonomy and
mobility
risks putting them in conflict with a law-enforcement establishment and media that still view women through a pre-feminist lens: “good girls” who stay at home should not be raped, while “bad girls” who stake a claim to public space are fair game.
So those of us who still wish to be flag-waving advocates for international capital
mobility
are reduced to two arguments.
Countries that float their currencies can be free to set interest rates and determine financial conditions at home, even with substantial international capital
mobility.
For most people, though,
mobility
means automobiles.
But is our modern
mobility
sustainable?
We are facing an energy crisis, a climate crisis, and an economic crisis – and perhaps a
mobility
crisis as well.
But urban life poses a challenge to our automotive
mobility.
In cities, cars offer easy
mobility
– but only when traffic isn’t too bad.
That protection comes at a price: if not a loss of civility, then certainly of urban mobility, as cars clog the roads.
If we continue to fill our cities – not just London and Los Angeles, but also Mumbai and Shanghai – with cars, we will be left with little
mobility
and barely functional cities.
Although the crisis of the American automobile manufacturers has many causes, its resolution may founder on the crisis of
mobility.
Detroit owes its century of remarkable success to the carmakers’ skill in packaging practical
mobility
with improbable fantasy.
Few of us will voluntarily renounce our modern
mobility.
Such differences are questionable not only in terms of fairness; they are also economically inefficient, because they tend to limit labor
mobility
across firms and sectors.
But it should ensure that all participants in the labor force, whatever their status, enjoy equal access to essential benefits; and it should aim at minimizing the losses that impede
mobility
across firms, sectors, and types of employment.
Admittedly, there are difficulties with all proposals to restrict the scope of “risky” banking, especially in the context of a global economy with free capital
mobility.
There is also the complication of global capital
mobility
and tax avoidance, which the G-20 is only beginning to address.
Our initial work on nanomaterial
mobility
in formations resembling groundwater aquifers or sand filters has shown that while one type of nanomaterial may be very mobile, a second may stay put.
Moreover, to reduce income inequality and enhance social mobility, Singapore’s government has increased benefits for the socioeconomically disadvantaged and the middle class, including by investing in education and making health care more affordable.
Adjustment in the United States’ monetary union occurs partly through labor
mobility.
The fact that people want to come to the US enhances its appeal, and immigrants’ upward
mobility
is attractive to people in other countries.
Africa’s shift toward regional integration encourages competitiveness by distributing more effectively production factors – such as inputs and equipment – and by allowing greater labor
mobility.
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