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We now know that the promise of free capital mobility has not been redeemed.
The best argument for free capital mobility remains the one made nearly two decades ago by Stanley Fischer, then the International Monetary Fund's number two official and now Vice Chair of the US Federal Reserve.
Free capital mobility continues to be the ultimate goal, even if some countries may have to take their time getting there.
First, as advocates of capital mobility tirelessly point out, countries must fulfill a long list of prerequisites before they can benefit from financial globalization.
Advocates of capital mobility assume that poor economies have lots of profitable investment opportunities that are not being exploited because of a shortage of investible funds.
To be sure, the US is plagued by rising economic inequality, regional and rural-urban income disparities, job insecurity, declining social mobility, and political polarization.
For other scholars, such as Richard Reeves and Isabel Sawhill, the American Dream is about mobility more generally.
But these measures are misleading, because they do not account for many of the things that matter to societies, such as equality, social mobility, or sustainability.
Likewise, we already know what an England without a social safety net – where the poor have no hope and no mobility – looks like.
Sluggish exports mean slow growth, which in turn places limits on social mobility and the expansion of an entrepreneurial middle class.
Downward mobility is a real threat, while upward mobility is limited.
In the US, upward mobility is more myth than reality, whereas downward mobility and vulnerability is a widely shared experience.
It was the choice of governments to loosen regulations on finance and aim for full cross-border capital mobility, just as it was a choice to maintain these policies largely intact, despite a massive global financial crisis.
A radical reform of the Kafala system, which monitors and regulates migrant labor, would remove a major barrier to labor mobility.
Both the public and private sectors – individually and through scalable and durable partnerships – need to think much more seriously about labor retraining and retooling programs, enhanced labor mobility, vocational training, and internships.
A new “framework for mobility” would aim to continue to “attract the brightest and the best, from the EU and elsewhere,” while curtailing (in unspecified ways) EU citizens’ freedom to work in Britain.
With its systemic negative effects on finance, trade, and labor mobility, Brexit marks a major setback for globalization.
Now Brexit has dealt another blow, adding labor mobility to the list.
In the US, successful convergence in economic conditions across regions relies strongly on labor mobility.
Internal migration is the main driver of income convergence, helped by a common language and all the other factors that foster mobility in America, such as comparatively easy access to housing and education.
At the same time, many Labour MPs recognize that the EU plays a central role in providing economic opportunities and social mobility for British citizens.
To reinvigorate social mobility, South Africa also needs a dose of economic dynamism, buttressed by a strong social-safety net.
But, given limited interregional transfers and labor mobility, this means that the continent has far less ability to absorb disparate shocks through the operation of so-called automatic stabilizers.
Social mobility in the US (and elsewhere) has been declining, undermining faith in the “American Dream” (which includes the belief that hard work will make one better off than one’s parents).
But that ignores a host of issues concerning the mobility, safety, and housing of employees.
The overarching goal is to design a roadmap that can take us from today’s poorly managed, exploitative system of human mobility to one that is well managed, protects migrant rights, and plans for the consequences and opportunities of migration.
An ideal result would focus attention on the need to reduce the barriers to all kinds of human mobility – both internal and across national borders – by lowering its economic and social costs.
If one also considers Singapore’s strong rule of law, lack of political corruption, and, most important, equality of opportunity and potential for social mobility, he argues, “[i]t is probably better to be poor in Singapore than anywhere else in Asia.”
Perhaps the EU itself will abandon free labor mobility in an attempt to appease the UK.
Now, even committed Remainers are failing to make the case for continued two-way labor mobility between the UK and the EU, and for membership in the European Economic Area (EEA).
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