Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Cross-border mobility'

Studies of tourism statistics have revealed that tourism movements worldwide are based on intraregional tourism, which includes cross-border mobility, rather than long-haul tourism. Although there have been studies on borders carried out in the past for various purposes, there remains a distinct lack of research into cross-border leisure-oriented mobility, particularly in Southeast Asia. As a result, examining constraints and permeability on leisure-oriented cross-border mobility may well help to overcome the tourist behaviour and cross-border mobility divide in literature, thus the subject of this thesis. The aims of this thesis are to investigate an identifiable sector of the population (i.e. Thai university students) and to analyze the motivations that drive, and constraints that limit their ability to travel to the neighbouring countries of Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Myanmar. Using a self-administered closed-questionnaire, data was collected from 750 students in seven universities in three provinces: Assumption, Kasetsart, and Thammasart Universities in Bangkok, Naresuan, and Pibunsongkram Rajabhat Universities, in Phitsanulok, and Mae Fah Luang and Chiang Rai Rajabhat Universities in Chiang Rai. The data was collected from October to December 2005. A response rate of approximately fifty percent was achieved. Analysis of the data showed that Thai university students were motivated by visiting heritage and historical sites to cross borders to Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar; whereas, the driving force for visits to Malaysia was to see new things and places. Interestingly, fear emerged as the constraint which most limited the students from travelling over the border to each of Thailand�s neighbouring countries. Psychological constraints were reported as having more influence on the respondents� border crossings than physical constraints. Distance from the borders also influenced cross-border ability. The study showed that cross-border travel behaviour was related to gender and income, but unrelated to the respondents� age. The research revealed that the respondents felt the easiest way to overcome their constraints to travel was to gain more travel experience and search for more information on their destination of choice. Interviews were gathered from fifteen key persons employed in five different fields of the travel industry and whose work related either directly and indirectly to cross-border mobility. The interviews took place during November 2005 to February 2006 at informants� workplaces in Bangkok and Chiang Rai. It was revealed that tourism development in border areas is regarded by society as having substantial social and economic benefits to the local people and their communities. It also revealed that borders do not have any direct physical effects toward people�s movement. It was found that the tenets of people�s leisure-oriented cross-border mobility were formed by both motivations and constraints; therefore, individuals must find a way to negotiate or overcome constraints before achieving the actual action. The uniqueness of the study was to illustrate the dynamic and simultaneous treatment of the fundamentals contributing to cross border mobility. This thesis has broken new ground in analyzing the theories developed predominantly in Western contexts of travel motivations and leisure constraints in an Asian setting, particularly in the context of Thai studies. It was found that the Thai tourist behaviour especially the university students, who are an important and significant and separate population, are difference from those students in the Western society in that Thai university students more concern in cross-border travelling to gain knowledge than to enjoy nightlife (sex, alcohol, and drugs).

The dissertation examines the macroeconomic impact of fiscal policy, including a recently-debated remittance tax in a small open economy that exports migrant workers and, at the same time, receives remittances sent by those migrants to families in the home country. The research also investigates the responses of optimal fiscal policy to shocks in either the home or the host country. Then, the empirical exercises are performed to determine the motivations behind remittances. More specifically, we test whether remittances come from existing migrants or result from migration when families at home experience income contraction caused by weather or natural disaster shocks. Chapter 1 provides some interesting findings. First, the results show that an economy with international migration is more resilient to demand shocks resulting from fiscal contraction. Second, the short-run association between remittances and domestic output depends on the sources of the shocks. Third, our results indicate that the equilibrium impact of a tax on remittances can be expansionary and welfare-improving when an economy is initially close to full employment. The presence of utility-enhancing government expenditures and a potential negative externality from over-allocation of labor abroad (over migration) justify the presence of distortionary taxes. Chapter 2 shows that an increase in remittances due to shocks in the host country increases consumption, but reduces domestic output due to labor migration. In such a case, optimal fiscal policy responds by lowering taxes on factor incomes to encourage domestic labor participation and increasing the remittance tax to curb labor migration. However, optimal policy response to shocks in the domestic economy is to raise all income taxes including factor incomes and remittances. Chapter 3 shows that there is no evidence that supports pure altruism hypothesis. Specifically, home income contraction due to natural disasters or weather shocks does not appear to induce existing migrants residing abroad to send more remittances. However, the results indicate that remittances increase as people experiencing the income shocks migrate to earn higher income abroad. The findings support our theoretical specification in the previous chapters that links remittances to international migration.

Mestrado em Gestão de Recursos Humanos
O presente relatório encontra-se inserido no âmbito do trabalho final de mestrado e resulta das atividades de estágio curricular desenvolvidas na empresa Cross Border Talents. Este estágio tem como temáticas o recrutamento e seleção internacional, desenvolvendo tarefas relacionadas com os processos de recrutamento e seleção no contexto internacional. Para uma melhor compreensão dos aspetos desenvolvidos no estágio é proposta uma revisão de literatura relativa aos processos de recrutamento e seleção. A mesma focaliza-se nos métodos de recrutamento e seleção usados na empresa, bem como o contexto internacional onde esta se insere. Também é apresentado uma análise às atividades desenvolvidas no estágio assim como a discussão e o enquadramento das mesmas com a revisão de literatura.
The present report consists of a Final Masters' Work and is the result of a curricular internship undertaken in the company Cross Border Talents. The main theme is international recruitment and selection, including tasks related with recruitment and selection processes in the international context in which the company operates. For the purpose of a better understanding of the activities performed by the company, the report includes a literature review on recruitment and selection processes, as well as the current international context. The reports ends with a critical analysis of the tasks performed during the internship, as well as a discussion, where those tasks are compared with main issues in the literature review.
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When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Europe in the beginning of 2020, a majority of countries reacted by closing their state borders. By drawing on concepts of border studies and border regional resilience, this thesis aims to examine the impact of the (im)mobility shock caused by the pandemic on two border twin cities in Europe. Through a qualitative approach, conducting semi-structured expert interviews and content analyses, the thesis attempts to identify (1) Which factors facilitated/obstructed the coping/adapting strategies to the problems caused by the pandemic induced state border closures; and (2) Which long-term effects the COVID-19 crisis will have on the future development of the border twin cities and whether their development path will transform into a more resilient one. The main finding of this thesis is that the crisis management on the local level was considerably limited by the restrictions enacted at the national level. To be better prepared for similar shocks, the border twin cities have already made plans based on their experience. However, it remains to be seen whether these strategies can contribute to the resilience of the cities. Nevertheless, coordination between the local, regional and national level is essential to plan and establish resilient border twin cities.

Based on Foucault's work on the rationalities of government (governmentality) and Bourdieu's study of practices (philosophy of action), this thesis seeks to examine the case of cross-border mobility by way of analysing knowledge-production, instruments of governing and practices in the EU's relations with the states of the Eastern Partnership (EaP). The thesis shows that EU attempts at governing cross-border mobility do not merely aim to foster regulated mobility between the EU and its neighbours, but are also inherently linked to the EU's efforts to shape the EaP states to its own standards and practices of governing. Using the case studies of i) border management capacity-building, ii) facilitation of short-term travel and iii) labour migration, the study argues that while the EU's rationalities of governing remain largely controlling and disciplinary, the study of the microcosm of daily practices reveals some emergent rationalities of 'governing at a distance', which increasingly draw on the interplay of both the EU's interests and partners' needs. To this end, it does not merely present issues of cross-border mobility from the perspective of either 'inclusion' or 'imposition of constraints', but rather by way of seeking to govern the external space by making the Other 'capable of bearing a kind of regulated freedom' (Rose & Miller; 2008: 53). The thesis' key contributions are (i) conceptual involving ontological examination of the wider changes in the EU management of (in)security, and focus of a paradigmatic shift from the EU directly-controlling 'governance' to a more nuanced form of diffused 'governmentality', or governing at distance, and its effectiveness; and (ii) methodological, combining the study of knowledge-production and instruments of governing with daily practices, hitherto applied separately, but in this research proving instrumental for understanding the EU management of insecurities and its sustainability. Empirically (iii), the thesis provides new data on the three case studies, particularly, highlighting the extent to which the EU's attempts at governing are transposed to the micro-level of daily practices. In the context of the on-going migration crisis, the eastern neighbourhood provides some important lesson-drawing for the management of cross-border mobility in the wider neighbourhood and beyond.

Taking as its subject the Russo-Ottoman borderland during the period between the Treaty of Berlin (1878) and the start of the First World War (1914), and making extensive use of Ottoman archival documents covering this period, this thesis focuses on the ways in which the Ottoman state attempted to establish two types of boundary in order to ensure sovereignty over its territory. Firstly, there was a new geo-political border, the line dividing the Russian and Ottoman Empires at the juncture of north-eastern Anatolia and the southern Caucasus, created by the Treaty of Berlin. Secondly, there was what can be called a citizenship boundary, shaped by various laws and regulations defining the Ottoman citizenry. The main issues examined in respect of the first boundary are various types of human movement across this border and their control by the Ottoman state. Primary concerns regarding the second boundary revolve around the inclusion in and exclusion from the Ottoman citizenship of ethno-religious groups as a result of the Ottoman state's enforcement of the border. Our approach to studying how the citizenship boundary was established is two-fold, reflecting both local and state perspectives. The local perspective shows the actions of the inhabitants and travellers passing through this border region as shaped by their own day-to-day needs, livelihood patterns and pre-existing socio-economic relations; these resisted limitation by the logic of the sovereign state. The state perspective reflects the Ottoman view of Russia as the main threat to its border territories; this view led the Ottoman central authorities to perceive the entanglements and overlapping positions of its subjects in and with Russia as the cause of their ambiguous loyalties to the Ottoman state. In focusing on the specific policies and practices that the Ottoman state applied in order to deal with this ambiguity, two groups of people, Muslims and Armenians, are singled out. Notwithstanding the all-embracing state laws and discourse of legal equality, Ottoman border policy in respect of its Muslim subjects is shown to have differed greatly from that designed for its Armenian subjects. Therefore, the thesis offers a nuanced framework with which to understand Ottoman citizenship in the Russo-Ottoman border context, by revealing the normative and practical measures the Ottoman state employed to classify its Muslim and Armenian populations, thereby differentiating their status as subjects. This thesis - the first English-language work on the Russo-Ottoman border region during the late nineteenth century and pre-WWI period- offers a range of original insights into this borderland in particular and related issues more generally. It unfolds the details of everyday life and represents the local people as active agents - active, moreover, in relation both to the changing nature and effectiveness of the state's assertion of territorial authority and also to the differences between the two empires' policies and practices. Overall, the thesis focuses on the end-of-empire border politics and the issue of Ottoman citizenship not only from the perspective of macro-level political developments and central state power but also in terms of the peripheral specificities of administration and the movements and subjecthood choices of villagers. Thus, this thesis presents a new type of multi-faceted account of borderland development in which ethno-religious considerations came to inform a somewhat messy production of sovereignty in the context of the modernizing transition between empire and nation-state.

La question de la mobilité des sociétés met principalement en cause deux ensembles normatifs étatiques. Tout d’abord, la société mobile rencontre en permanence la question des conflits de lois. Ainsi, la mobilité implique le passage par la question fondamentale de la reconnaissance, la mise en jeu des règles de conflit sur la loi applicable aux sociétés ainsi que, plus généralement, la nécessité de consulter en permanence toutes les règles délimitant la compétence normative de l’Etat en matière sociétaire, telles les règles de conflit (jurisprudentielles ou du droit positif) ou les lois de police susceptibles d’être mises en œuvre dans une opération de restructuration transfrontalière d’un groupe de sociétés ou dans une opération transfrontalière d’acquisition ou de prise de contrôle. Dans un second lieu, la mobilité met inéluctablement en jeu les règles formant les systèmes nationaux de fiscalité internationale des sociétés, à savoir les règles fiscales nationales ou internationales (émanant du droit fiscal interne ou des traités d’évitement de double imposition) applicables à des situations relevant des activités internationales des sociétés. Ces deux aspects de la question de la mobilité intra-communautaire des sociétés ne peuvent pas être traités indépendamment l'une de l'autre, puisque les deux corps de règles (règles de conflit et règles de compétence fiscale) obéissent plus ou moins aux mêmes impératifs hiérarchiquement supérieurs de nature politique, économique et sociale et, par conséquent, ils sont interdépendants. En outre, l’étude de leur évolution historique durant la période qui s’étend du début du XIXe siècle jusqu’à nos jours au sein des ordres juridiques analysés (français, anglais, allemand, belge) démontre qu'ils se sont réciproquement influencées pour atteindre leur état actuel. Au travers d’une analyse interdisciplinaire, nous mettons l'accent, dans une première partie, sur les points d'intersection des deux corps de règles afin d'exposer la mécanique complexe de la mobilité internationale des sociétés et afin de mettre en exergue les considérations juridiques et fiscales qui dominent la matière. Cela dit, les systèmes nationaux de fiscalité internationale et les systèmes nationaux de droit international des sociétés sont aujourd’hui en pleine transformation sous l’emprise du droit communautaire qui se veut un méta-ordre d’organisation des comportements des gouvernements nationaux et des agents économiques selon et vers un modèle nouveau de régulation du marché de nature à rendre la création d’un Marché unique au sein de l’UE possible. Dans la seconde partie de notre étude, nous explorons l’impact du droit dérivé et de la jurisprudence de la CJUE -qui agissent conjointement afin d’atteindre cet objectif- sur ces deux ensembles normatifs nationaux, afin de conclure que toutes les évolutions récentes et anticipées en matière de mobilité des sociétés, tant au niveau national qu’au niveau communautaire, s’inscrivent dans le contexte de l’évolution globale du processus de transition des ordres juridiques nationaux d’un modèle capitaliste traditionnel de régulation du marché inspiré par les travaux de M. Keynes à un modèle néo-libéral, accélérée par la pression de la vague contemporaine de la mondialisation économique. En se situant dans une perspective historique et interdisciplinaire de la question de la mobilité intra-communautaire des sociétés, nous nous efforçons d’en cerner les tendances et les configurations ainsi que d’en faire l’état des lieux des progrès effectués depuis le XIXe siècle
Cross-border company mobility principally involves two main sets of State norms. Firstly, mobile companies continuously encounter conflict of laws questions. Therefore, mobility implies a necessary passage from the fundamental question of recognition of foreign companies, the application of conflict of laws rules determining the lex societatis and, more generally, the consultation of all the rules delineating the normative jurisdiction of the State in corporate matters, namely the conflict of laws rules (whether they stem from positive law or from judicial precedents) or the mandatory rules (lois de police) likely to be implemented in cross-border M&As, reorganizations and take-overs. Secondly, company mobility brings inevitably into play the national or international tax rules which constitute the national systems of international taxation of companies, namely tax rules emanating either from national tax legislation or from international treaties on avoidance of double taxation. These two aspects of the matter of company cross-border mobility shall not be examined separately, given that the formation of conflict of laws rules and tax jurisdiction rules that delineate a state’s tax jurisdiction depends on each State’s hierarchically superior imperatives of a political, economic and social nature, these two body of rules being, therefore, interdependent. The study of their historical evolution within the legal systems examined in our thesis (French, English, German and Belgian) from the early 19th century to date, demonstrates that their current state constitutes the result of their mutual influence. Through an interdisciplinary analysis, we emphasize, in the first part of our thesis, on the crossing points of these two sets of rules in order to explain the complex mechanics of cross-border mobility of companies and point out the legal and tax considerations that dominate the matter. We further explore their transformation by EU law which is intended as a meta-order aimed at orchestrating national government and economic agents’ behaviors according to and towards a new model of market regulation susceptible to the creation of a European single market. The second part of our thesis is dedicated to the study of the impact of secondary EU legislation and European Court of Justice jurisprudence –that act jointly to achieve the European single market objective- on the aforementioned bodies of national rules, that leads to the conclusion that the recent and anticipated developments on the mobility of companies within the EU both on national and European level, fall within the broader framework of the overall development of the transition process of national legal orders from a traditional capitalist model of market regulation inspired by the theories of M. Keynes towards a neo-liberal model which is accelerated by the pressure of the contemporary trend of economic globalization. Addressing the subject of cross-border mobility of companies within the EU both from a historical and an interdisciplinary perspective, we endeavor to identify trends and patterns and to assess the progress achieved since the early 19th century

À coté de l’objectif immédiat d’uniformiser les législations des États membres, l’OHADA s’est fixée un objectif médiat, celui de créer un vaste marché sans frontière. Or au regard des difficultés pour les sociétés commerciales de déplacer leurs sièges sociaux d’un État membre à un autre, nous ne pouvons que constater que l’existence de ce marché intégré n’est pas encore une réalité pour elles. Il apparaît alors que la seule uniformisation du droit des sociétés commerciales par l’OHADA ne suffit pas à leur permettre de réaliser des opérations de restructuration transfrontalière. Cette thèse a ainsi montré que l’OHADA a besoin d’évoluer et de se transformer pour mettre en place un véritable droit à la mobilité pour les sociétés commerciales au sein son espace communautaire. Elle doit pour cela compléter son intégration juridique par une intégration économique consacrant un libre établissement dont les opérations de mobilité seraient des modalités d’exercice, comme l’a fait l’Union européenne. Ce droit à la mobilité ne devra toutefois pas s’exercer de manière abusive. L’OHADA devra donc trouver un équilibre entre une mobilité fluidifiée et une protection efficace des actionnaires, salariés et tiers. De même il conviendra de rechercher un équilibre dans la gestion de la coexistence des normes communautaires qui ne manquera pas de se présenter dans le régime des opérations de mobilité puisqu’il s’agit d’un problème récurrent dans l’espace OHADA
Apart from the direct objective of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA) to standardize the law, its indirect objective relates to the creation of a large common market. However, regarding the difficulties for companies to transfer their registered office from one member state to another, we can see that the existence of such market is still not a reality for them. Therefore, it appears that the only standardizing of the corporate law by OHADA is not sufficient to allow them to perform their cross-border mergers. This research shows thus that OHADA needs to change and to transform itself to put in place a real right to mobility in the community area for the companies. Like the European Union, it should complete the legal integration by an economic integration setting up a freedom of establishment, including border restructuring operations. But this right to mobility should not be abused. OHADA will have to find a balance between facilitating the mobility and protecting efficiently minority shareholders, employees and third parties rights. Similarly a balance must be struck to solve the conflict of community norms in the restructuring operations legal regime, since it is a recurrent problem for OHADA space

Le lac Tchad étonne par sa singularité. Alors que le développement des autres grandes zones humides sahéliennes a reposé sur les périmètres irrigués, le sien a reposé sur la valorisation du mouvement des eaux par l'agriculture, l'élevage et la pêche, et par les mobilités. Quasi espace vierge dans les années 1940, le Lac est devenu une région densément peuplée et cosmopolite exportant des vivriers diversifiés sur les marchés urbains de la sous-région. À travers l'analyse des dynamiques agraires et territoriales de la fenêtre lacustre camerounaise, ce travail interroge les opportunités qu'offrent, dans un environnement incertain, le multiusage des ressources et les mobilités à l'intensification des processus productifs et à la densification démographique.Le renforcement des complémentarités et synergies entre activités dégage les voies d'une intensification écologique du mode d'exploitation et d'un développement territorial, créateurs de richesse et d'emplois. En favorisant l'émergence de rapports sociaux et d'institutions innovantes assurant l'accès aux ressources productives et aux marchés à une grande diversité de populations, le statut de marge territoriale de la fenêtre lacustre a été déterminant dans la dynamique d'intensification. L'incertitude hydro-écologique, économique et démographique a été intégrée au fonctionnement « normal » du système agraire et à celui de territoires qui se singularisent par leur mobilité. Aujourd'hui, c'est l'incertitude politique qui menace l'avenir du lac Tchad. Elle résulte des conflits de pouvoirs locaux constitutifs du rapport de l'État aux populations, et de l'action publique à travers les politiques agricoles et environnementales
The Lake Chad is unique in the Sahelian band. Whereas large scale irrigated schemes has characterized the other wetlands, here the development of agriculture, cattle breeding and fishing has been based on the use of the water floods and on mobilities. Almost virgin until the 1940s, the Lake has become a highly populated and cosmopolitan area, exporting diversified foodstuffs to the urban markets of the sub-region. Through the analysis of agrarian and territorial dynamics of the Cameroonian lake shores, this research questions to which extent multi-use of the natural resources and mobilities may allow further agricultural intensification and population increase in such an uncertain environment.Closer complementarity and synergy between activities pave the way for ecological intensification and territorial development inducing wealth and job generation. Due to its marginal nature, the Cameroonian part of the Lake has been the place of continuous social innovations, ensuring to a great diversity of people the access to productive assets and markets. In this sense, it has been actually decisive for the dynamic of intensification. Hydro-ecological, economic and demographic uncertainty has been integrated into the “normal” functioning of the agrarian system and territory. Nowadays, the political uncertainty threatens the future of the Lake Chad. It results both from agricultural and environmental policies and from conflicts between local authorities, that are constitutives of the relation between the State and the populations

Le développement des relations économiques internationales et la construction d'un espace européen intégré tant d'un point de vue économique que politique a relancé le débat sur la nationalité des sociétés. La question n'est pas tant de savoir si les sociétés commerciales disposent d'une nationalité au même titre que les personnes physiques - les solutions en la matière sont depuis longtemps acceptées par la doctrine et la jurisprudence internationales - mais plutôt de déterminer comment cette notion a évolué et s'adapte aux contraintes d'une part, d'une économie de marché mondialisée et d'autre part, du droit de l'Union européenne qui bouleverse les solutions traditionnellement admises en matière de nationalité des sociétés dans les droits internes des Etats membres. Ainsi, les critères de rattachement juridique d'une société à un Etat déterminés par les règles de droit international privé de chaque Etat s'orientent inéluctablement vers le critère anglo-saxon de l'incorporation. L'apparition de nouvelles personnes morales de droit de l'UE comme la Société européenne (SE) ou la future Société privée européenne (SPE) posent également la question de la nationalité et de la loi applicable à ce type de groupement européen. Il en est de même s'agissant des groupes de sociétés dont une réglementation de leurs activités pourrait être relancée dans le cadre du droit de l'UE.

La recherche de la loi applicable à la société, lex societatis, est incontournable carc’est de cette loi dont dépendront les règles de constitution, de fonctionnement et dedissolution de la société. Mais la problématique de la détermination de la lex societatis enDroit International des Affaires réside dans l’identification d’un mode adéquat derattachement des sociétés transfrontalières à un territoire national. Le caractère transfrontalierdes sociétés actuelles accentue le conflit entre les différents systèmes de rattachement dessociétés traditionnellement retenus par les législations. La pluralité de système derattachement des sociétés est à l’origine de conflits auxquels l’uniformisation de la règle deconflit de lois en matière de détermination de la lex societatis peut être une solution.Le droit des sociétés doit être un instrument au service des affaires, et non un frein àleur évolution et à leur développement. Ainsi pour répondre aux besoins des affairesinternationales, outre l’élimination des entraves aux échanges il faut envisager une adaptationdu contenu des règles de conflit de lois actuelles qui permettent la détermination de la lexsocietatis ainsi qu’une modification de leur source
The search of the law applicable to the company, lex societatis is a must because it isthis law which will depend on the rules of formation, operation and dissolution of thecompany. But the problem of determining the lex societatis in International Business Law isthe identification of a suitable method of attachment of cross-border companies on a nationalterritory. The transboundary nature of today’s societies accentuates the conflict between thedifferent companies of connecting systems traditionally retained by the legislation. Theplurality of connecting corporate system is causing conflicts that standardization of the rulesof conflict of laws determining the lex societatis can be a solution.Company law should be a tool for business, not a hindrance to their development andtheir development. So to meet the needs of international business, besides the elimination ofbarriers to trade should be considered an adaptation of the contents of the current conflict oflaws rules that allow the determination of the lex societatis and a change of their source

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國立暨南國際大學
比較教育學系
95
Abstract By utilizing the cross-boarder mobility and cooperation of education, European Union had promoted economy prosperous and broken national boundaries since the 50’s. Following of human capital boom of 60’s and IT development of 80’s, European higher education had become a means of creating competitive manpower. However, under the impact of globalizing trends, the traditional values couldn’t meet Europeans’ needs as usual. European Commission also realized that economic integration wouldn’t necessarily bring the political integration, not to mention the integration of Europeans. Higher education policies should not only pledge to transform the Union into the most competitive society in the world, but also make Europeans were suited to the challenges of living in the new century. Therefore, in order to build an attractive European higher education area, a series of innovation on higher education policies had been started in the 80’s. Through the cooperation and cross-border mobility of education, European Union brings common cultures and values to Europeans, and shapes the form of European identification. With the deepening of European integration, Commission unfolds to the universes for determination, and establishes a European higher education center at world-class level. In order to comprehend and analysis the policies of cross-border mobility and cooperation in higher education under European integration. The main sources of this thesis are mostly based on the documents, reports and papers of the EU, and exert the historical retracing. The thesis is divided into five chapters: 1. An introduction of motivation, objectives and research method of this study. 2. Reviewing the backgrounds for European integration and higher education policies. 3. An introduction of EU’s programs of cross-border mobility and cooperation in higher education. 4. An analysis of EU’s policies and programs of cross-border mobility and cooperation in higher education. 5. A dissertate and future of higher education policies under EU enlargement.

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淡江大學
高等教育研究所碩士班
99
Abstract: This study aims to explore the cross-border students’ mobility in the Netherland and Ireland, respectively, and to compare the similarities and differences between these two countries. The main methods used in this study include document analysis and comparative study. The main conclusions of this study are summarized as follow: I. As to the development and the current provision of higher education in the Netherland and Ireland: 1.Higher education in both countries have expanded greatly in the past decades and transformed from the traditionally ‘elite’ type to a ‘mass’ one. 2.Higher education systems in both countries are adopting the binary system, and the majority of their higher education institutions are publicly funded, though their funding systems are different. 3.Higher education system in the Netherland has been reformed since 2002, in accordance with the ‘3-cycle degree system’ of the Bologna process, but the 3-cycle degree system has been implemented for quite a long time in Ireland. II. As to the policies related to the cross-border students’ mobility in the Netherland and Ireland: 1.Both countries has established their own ‘codes of practice’ for cross-border students’ mobility. 2.Both countries have implemented European Credits Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) and established diploma supplements(DS), as requested by the Bologna processs.. 3.Both countries have promoted the cross-border students’ mobility by offering the joint degree programmes, and providing grants or scholarships to international students. 4.Both countries have established a nationwide institute responsible for the marketing and international cooperation in higher education. 5.Internatoionalization has been one of the important policies of higher education in both countries. 6. Both countries have established their own quality assurance systems of higher education. . 7.The Netherland has established its own overseas education offices (NESOs) , responsible for the consultation of overseas students., but there is no such kind agency in Ireland.

This paper studies the effects of reimbursement for medical tourism within the European Union. We use a spatial competition framework to study the effects on prices, qualities and patient flows between two countries. Patient mobility increases with the implementation of reimbursement mechanisms. The resulting equilibria in prices and qualities depend on the rule of reimbursements and possible differences in country specific parameters. Soft budget constraints that public providers may have, pose a competitive advantage over private providers and divert demand toward the former. Supranational coordination concerning soft budgets constraints is needed to address the potentially detrimental effects on aggregate welfar

Corporate Mobility in European Union Law The thesis deals with the latest developments in corporate mobility in the light of the recent CJEU decisions and its inherently formulated doctrine. After a brief introduction of the discussed general concepts, a dissection of previous case law and relevant legislation, the author explores the ways in which the current changes in the conception of cross-border conversions have influenced corporate mobility as a whole and the perception of freedom of establishment in particular. The question whether further legislative actions have to be taken in order to enable companies to take advantage of these developments is debated. The thesis is divided into five logical clusters which are structured in the following manner. Firstly, I analyze the fundamental pillars of corporate mobility, liability and capital protection doctrines that serve as the tangential object of interest to the actual subject matter as they represent the wider legal framework of European company law. Secondly, a comprehensive summary of the preceding case law of the Court on the issue of freedom of establishment is presented, providing an insight on the current issues, which are thoroughly discussed and analyzed in the remainder of the thesis. In Chapter four, the VALE case is further...

Relatório de Estágio do Mestrado em Gestão apresentado à Faculdade de Economia
O presente relatório de estágio curricular, realizado no âmbito do Mestrado em Gestão daFaculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, é fruto do trabalho desenvolvido naUnidade Regional de Gestão do Acesso (URGA), na Administração Regional de Saúde doCentro (ARSC, I.P.). A URGA, unidade regional responsável pelo monitoramento e gestãodo acesso dos cidadãos aos cuidados de saúde, desenvolve a sua atividade através docontacto, direto e/ou indireto, com utentes de várias nacionalidades e com entidades de saúdedo setor público, privado e social. Adicionalmente, a URGA também direciona ativamenteos seus esforços na dilucidação e formação dos profissionais de saúde e no desenvolvimentoda “literacia em saúde” nos cidadãos. Assim, tendo em conta o papel preponderante queaquela unidade regional desempenha em matéria de cuidados de saúde, envolvendo tantocidadãos portugueses como estrangeiros, e dado a minha formação base em RelaçõesInternacionais, a temática no âmbito dos cuidados de saúde transfronteiriços revelou-secomo tema de interesse para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho. Como tal, como principaisobjetivos, este relatório pretende, por um lado, dar a conhecer de uma forma sintética o papel,funções e responsabilidades que a entidade acolhedora do meu estágio curricular assume noseio da ARSC, I.P., bem como descrever as tarefas e as atividades desenvolvidas durante operíodo de estágio e fazer uma reflexão crítica sobre as mesmas. Por outro lado, este relatóriotambém pretende fazer um enquadramento teórico ao tema “cuidados de saúdetransfronteiriços” associado à “mobilidade transfronteiriça de doentes” dentro e fora docenário europeu, inclusive o caso português, através da identificação dos mecanismoslegislativos vigentes sobre esta matéria e da exposição de alguns exemplos que permitem ailustração deste fenómeno social. É ainda feita uma análise crítica sobre o papel e o impactoda Diretiva 2011/24/EU enquanto instrumento jurídico vinculativo relativamente aoexercício dos direitos dos doentes em matéria de cuidados de saúde transfronteiriços eapresentadas as suas potencialidades e limitações.
This report carried out within the scope of the Master’s in Management of the Faculty ofEconomics of the University of Coimbra, is the result of the internship that took place inUnidade Regional de Gestão do Acesso (URGA), in Administração Regional de Saúde doCentro (ARSC, I.P.). URGA, a regional unit responsible for monitoring and managingcitizens' access to health care, develops its activity through direct and/or indirect contactwith patients of various nationalities and with public, private and social health entities. Inaddition, URGA also actively directs its efforts on the enlightenment and training of healthprofessionals and in the development of "health literacy" among citizens. Given thepreponderant role that this regional unit plays in health care, involving both Portuguese andforeign citizens, and given my academic background in International Relations, cross-borderhealth care has emerged as a topic of interest for the development of this work. Therefore,this report aims, on the one hand, to make a presentation of the host entity of my curricularinternship, and a description of the tasks and activities developed during the internship, aswell as a critical reflection on them. On the other hand, it intends to provide a theoreticalframework for cross-border healthcare associated with "cross-border patient mobility"within and outside Europe, including the Portuguese case, by identifying existing legislativemechanisms in this area and by presenting some examples to better illustrate this socialphenomenon. A critical analysis is also carried out on the role and impact of Directive2011/24/EU as a legally binding instrument with the regard to the exercise of patients' rightsin cross-border healthcare, as wells as on their potential and limitations.

The thesis deals with patient mobility in the European Union. It is particularly focused on legislation development of cross-border healthcare providing. Its purpose is to analyse and critically evaluate different regulations of this issue. Using the comparison of individual legislation whether it is regulation, directive or case law, aims to explain the basic principles that patient undergoing a treatment in another Member State obey. The thesis is composed of five chapters. Chapter one is an introduction to the general context of health policy and modification in primary law. The second chapter assesses the role of patient in the European Union, which is seen here as a community of free market. The chapter has the largest content. This part is dedicated to it with an emphasis on significant impact that this area has brought the case law of the Court of Justice of the EU. The case law pointed to the need to adhere the primary law to address this issue, which prohibits Member States to impose restrictions that could restrict the free movement of patients. Health care has been classified as a service and the patient has been recognized as a consumer sui generis. It specifies and particularly explains the procedures of the Court that intervened in the existing legislation by its liberal stridency....

ABSTRACT - BACKGROUND The EU Directive on cross-border healthcare clarified the entitlements of EU citizens to medical care in other EU Member states. However, little is known about whether EU citizens have been travelling or are willing to travel to receive medical care. The aim of this study was to measure the determinants of cross-border patient mobility and willingness to travel to receive medical care in the EU, before and after the adoption of the Directive. METHODS We used individual data from the Eurobarometer 210 (2007) and 425 (2014). In the two years, 54,384 EU citizens were randomly selected for telephone and face-to-face interviews. We performed a logistic regression on the cross-border patient mobility and willingness to travel to other EU countries to use healthcare services as a function of the year (2007 or 2014), adjusting for age, gender, education, self perceived health (SPH), and country size. RESULTS In 2007, 3.3% of citizens reported cross-border mobility, and 4.6% in 2014. The odds of cross-border patients’ mobility was 15% higher in 2014, compared to 2007 (OR 1.15, 95%CI 1.05-1.26, p<.001). In addition, mobility was 15% higher in males (OR 1.15, 95%CI 1.05-1.3, p<0.001) and 20% amongst the more educated (OR 1.2, 95%CI 1.1- 1.3, p<.001). However, the odds decreased with age (OR 0.9 per decade, 95%CI 0.84- 0.92, p<.001), bad and very bad SPH, and country size. In 2014 the willingness to travel decreased by 22% compared to 2007. The other determinants of willingness to travel, namely gender, age, education, SHP, and country size, had a similar effect as in the cross-border mobility model. CONCLUSIONS Cross-border patient mobility and willingness to travel are more likely amongst younger, more educated, and healthier patients from smaller countries. The 2011 directive does not seem to have promoted mobility at a large scale among the neediest citizens.
RESUMO - INTRODUÇÃO A diretiva da União Europeia (UE) referente ao exercício dos direitos dos pacientes em cuidados de saúde transfronteiriços clarificou os direitos dos cidadãos da UE. No entanto, pouco se sabe sobre a mobilidade transfronteiriça dos pacientes e a vontade de viajar para receber cuidados médicos. Desse modo, pretendemos estudar os determinantes da mobilidade transfronteiriça dos pacientes e a vontade de viajar para receber cuidados médicos na UE, especialmente após a adoção da diretiva. MÉTODOS Utilizamos dados do Eurobarómetro 210 (2007) e 425 (2014). Nos dois anos 54.384 cidadãos da UE foram selecionados aleatoriamente para entrevistas telefónicas e pessoalmente. Aplicámos uma regressão logística à mobilidade transfronteiriça dos pacientes e a vontade de viajar para usar os serviços de saúde noutros países da EU em função do ano (2007 ou 2014), idade, sexo, educação, saúde auto-reportada e tamanho do país. RESULTADOS Em 2007, 3,3% dos cidadãos relataram mobilidade transfronteiriça aumentando para 4,6% em 2014. A probabilidade de mobilidade transfronteiriça dos pacientes foi 15% maior em 2014, em comparação com 2007 (OR 1,15, IC 95% 1,05-1,26, p <.001). Além disso, a mobilidade foi 15% maior em homens (OR 1,15, IC 95% 1,05-1,3, p <0,001) e 20% em níveis mais elevados de educação (OR 1,2, 95% CI 1.1-1,3, p <0,001). No entanto, a probabilidade diminuí com a idade (OR 0,9 por década, IC 95% 0,84-0,92, p <0,001), má e muito má saúde auto-reportada e tamanho do país. Por outro lado, em 2014, a vontade de viajar diminuiu 22% em relação a 2007. Os outros determinantes da vontade de viajar, sexo, idade, educação, saúde auto-reportada e tamanho do país tiveram um efeito semelhante ao do modelo da mobilidade. CONCLUSÕES Entre 2007 e 2014, houve um ligeiro aumento da mobilidade transfronteiriça dos pacientes, que é, no entanto ainda baixo. A mobilidade transfronteiriça dos pacientes e a vontade de viajar são mais prováveis entre os pacientes mais jovens, mais educados, mais saudáveis, e de países mais pequenos. A diretiva de 2011 não parece ter promovido a mobilidade em grande escala entre os cidadãos mais necessitados.