Eu Labour Migration Since Enlargement

Author : Béla Galgóczi,Janine Leschke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317140207

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EU Labour Migration since Enlargement by Béla Galgóczi,Janine Leschke Pdf

One of the most important consequences of EU enlargement in May 2004 was to extend the principle of the free movement of labour to the citizens of the central and eastern European new member states. In this book a team of labour economists and migration experts sheds light on the dimensions, characteristics and impacts of cross-border labour migration in selected sending (Hungary, Latvia and Poland) and receiving (Austria, Germany, Sweden and the UK) countries. Separate contributions detail the policy responses by governments, employers and trade unions in these countries to the challenges posed by both inward and outward migration. By setting out and analyzing the facts for seven countries, which vary greatly in their geographical situation, policies, and outcomes, the book contributes to the debate on this crucial issue in the ongoing process of European integration.

Author : Martin Kahanec,Klaus F. Zimmermann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642022425

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EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration by Martin Kahanec,Klaus F. Zimmermann Pdf

Selected by Princeton University as Noteworthy Book in Industrial Relations and Labor Economics for 2010. Are immigrants from the new EU member states a threat to the Western welfare state? Do they take jobs away from the natives? And will the source countries suffer from severe brain drain or demographic instability? In a timely and unprecedented contribution, this book integrates what is known about post-enlargement migration and its effects on EU labor markets. Based on rigorous analysis and hard data, it makes a convincing case that there is no evidence that the post-enlargement labor migrants would on aggregate displace native workers or lower their wages, or that they would be more dependent on welfare. While brain drain may be a concern in the source countries, the anticipated brain circulation between EU member states may in fact help to solve their demographic and economic problems, and improve the allocative efficiency in the EU. The lesson is clear: free migration is a solution rather than a foe for labor market woes and cash-strapped social security systems in the EU.

Author : Richard Black,Godfried Engbersen,Marek Okólski
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789089641564

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A Continent Moving West? by Richard Black,Godfried Engbersen,Marek Okólski Pdf

Dit boek beschrijft de toename van migratie uit Oost-europese landen in de periode van 2004-2007, na toetreding tot de EU. Het bevat nieuwe empirische 'casestudies' van migratiepatronen, zowel gebaseerd op veldwerk als op de analyse van bestaande statistieken.

Author : Béla Galgóczi,Janine Leschke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317140221

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EU Labour Migration in Troubled Times by Béla Galgóczi,Janine Leschke Pdf

The debate on the free movement of labour within the EU has gained new momentum in the wake of the economic crisis. Building on the earlier Ashgate publication EU Labour Migration Since Enlargement, the editors have assembled a team of experts from across Europe to shed light on the critical issues raised by internal labour mobility within the EU in the context of economic crisis and labour market pressures. The book's chapters tease out the links between economic developments, regulatory frameworks and migration patterns in different European countries. A central focus is on issues of skills and skills mismatch and how they relate to migration forms, duration and individual decisions to stay or return. Based on detailed analysis of European and national-level sources, the results presented clearly contradict assumptions about a "knowledge driven migration". Rather, over-qualification and the corresponding underutilisation of migrant workers' skills emerge as a pervasive phenomenon. At the same time the characteristics of migrants - not just skills, but socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes - and also their labour market integration are shown to be very diverse and to vary substantially between different sending and receiving countries. This calls for a differentiated analysis and raises complex issues for policymakers. Examples where policy has contributed to positive outcomes for both migrants and domestic workforces are identified. Unique in analysing labour migration flows within the European Union in a comparative manner putting skills into the centre and taking account of the effects of the economic crisis, while addressing policy concerns this is a valuable resource for academics, policymakers and practitioners alike.

Author : Béla Galgóczi,Janine Leschke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317140238

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EU Labour Migration in Troubled Times by Béla Galgóczi,Janine Leschke Pdf

The debate on the free movement of labour within the EU has gained new momentum in the wake of the economic crisis. Building on the earlier Ashgate publication EU Labour Migration Since Enlargement, the editors have assembled a team of experts from across Europe to shed light on the critical issues raised by internal labour mobility within the EU in the context of economic crisis and labour market pressures. The book's chapters tease out the links between economic developments, regulatory frameworks and migration patterns in different European countries. A central focus is on issues of skills and skills mismatch and how they relate to migration forms, duration and individual decisions to stay or return. Based on detailed analysis of European and national-level sources, the results presented clearly contradict assumptions about a "knowledge driven migration". Rather, over-qualification and the corresponding underutilisation of migrant workers' skills emerge as a pervasive phenomenon. At the same time the characteristics of migrants - not just skills, but socio-demographic characteristics and attitudes - and also their labour market integration are shown to be very diverse and to vary substantially between different sending and receiving countries. This calls for a differentiated analysis and raises complex issues for policymakers. Examples where policy has contributed to positive outcomes for both migrants and domestic workforces are identified. Unique in analysing labour migration flows within the European Union in a comparative manner putting skills into the centre and taking account of the effects of the economic crisis, while addressing policy concerns this is a valuable resource for academics, policymakers and practitioners alike.

Author : Bela Galgoczi,Andrew Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 1315580713

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EU Labour Migration Since Enlargement by Bela Galgoczi,Andrew Watt Pdf

Author : Martin Kahanec,Klaus F. Zimmermann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662453209

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Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession by Martin Kahanec,Klaus F. Zimmermann Pdf

This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed debate about the role of post-enlargement migration for economic adjustment in the crisis-stricken labor markets of the Eurozone and the EU as a whole. The book addresses the political economy aspects of post-enlargement migration, including its broader political contexts, redistributive impacts, but also nationalization of the enlargement agenda. It also covers the experience of receiving and sending countries with post-enlargement migration and its role during the current crisis. Renowned experts in the field study, whether and how post-enlargement mobility has enabled the EU to absorb asymmetric economic shocks, how it has affected the European welfare systems, and whether it has contributed to the sustainability of the Eurozone. The authors also evaluate brain circulation as a sought-after vehicle of improved allocative efficiency of EU labor markets and propose a policy agenda for mobility in an enlarged EU.

Author : Gönül Oğuz
Publisher : UN
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCBK:C111889306

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EU Enlargement and Turkish Labour Migration by Gönül Oğuz Pdf

Provides an evaluation of labor migration in general and Turkish labor migration to the European Union in particular. This title introduces the link between the European integration process and Turkish labor migration and focuses on critical issues relating to economic, demographic, political, and social implications of EU's eastern enlargement.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264189324

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Migration Policies and EU Enlargement The Case of Central and Eastern Europe by OECD Pdf

This conference proceedings shows that the migration flows within and from the CEECs are much more complex than a straightforward westward flow towards the European Union and North America.

Author : Michael Hofmann
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783638755689

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Assessing east-west labour migration after EU-enlargement by Michael Hofmann Pdf

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 72 (UK system), University of Kent, language: English, abstract: On May 1, 2004, ten new countriesi joined the European Union (EU). Besides the Mediterranean countries of Cyprus and Malta, eight Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC/EU-8) became members of the EU. The developments that lead to the enlargement in 2004 were accompanied by concerns in the fifteen old member states (EU-15) regarding the potential inflow of workers from the EU-8. The Free Movement of Workers is a fundamental pillar of the EU’s internal market and is legally defined in Article 39 I of the Treaty of the European Community.ii According to this principle, every citizen of the EU is entitled to take up employment and to answer to job-offers EU wide. Some countries of the EU-15 feared that their labour markets were going to be flooded by Eastern European workers. Polish plumbers and Czech pavers, taking over the jobs of the EU-15 citizens, became symbols of the fear that was spreading in some EU-15 countries. This essay will focus on two aspects: Firstly, it will examine whether the estimated migration scenarios prior to enlargement have been able to picture the current migration flows correctly. In a second step, the short- and medium-term impacts of EU-10 migration on the economies of the UK and Germany will be assessed. Whereas the former decided to allow migrant workers access to its labour market from the very beginning, the latter had chosen to restrict the free movement of workers and is currently considering extending these restrictions until 2009. It will be argued that the fears concerning negative economic effects in the UK were irrational – at least concerning the short-term impact. In regard to the German case, it will be argued that extending the restrictions until 2009 will have only a limitedly harmful effect on the economy.

Author : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110944878

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Migration Policies and EU Enlargement by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Pdf

This conference proceedings shows that the migration flows within and from the CEECs are much more complex than a straightforward westward flow towards the European Union and North America.

Author : Gönül Oğuz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030361853

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Labour Migration in the European Union by Gönül Oğuz Pdf

No analysis of migration in Europe today can avoid consideration of the role of the EU institutions, as well as the member states, in policy-making. This is because the obstacles for labour mobility which have confronted the EU in the post-enlargement period have been multi-dimensional in nature, have encompassed many different aspects of European integration process, and have operated at many different levels. Recent developments in the free movement of labour in Europe entail a comprehensive analysis of the dynamic of migration policy process, contextualising institutional change, cooperation, control and competition between the EU institutions and the member states. This book provides a picture of how governance of labour migration is constructed, managed, negotiated and decided at the European level. It brings together in an informed and well-organized way some of the key issues in the face of current migration crises and Brexit.

Author : Jon Erik Dølvik,Line Eldring
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781786354419

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Labour Mobility in the Enlarged Single European Market by Jon Erik Dølvik,Line Eldring Pdf

The economic crisis has caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility, unleashing heated debates about the consequences of large-scale labour migration. This volume improves understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, and effects of the past decade’s surge in cross-border labour mobility and work related migration within Europe.

Author : Jan Willem Holtslag,Monique Kremer,Erik Schrijvers
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048519514

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Making migration work by Jan Willem Holtslag,Monique Kremer,Erik Schrijvers Pdf

The complexion of labour migration in the European Union (EU) has altered in recent years. Not only has there been a shift in the length of time labour migrants spend abroad, but the nature, scale and direction of the migration flows have also changed dramatically. The enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 were influential in this respect. A growing economy and large wage gaps encouraged a large stream of workers to leave the new Member States for the old. The EUs open internal borders made it easy for them to return home or to move on to another Member State. This publication considers what this means for the future of labour migration and how policy should address this issue.

Author : Birgit Glorius,Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska,Aimee Kuvik
Publisher : IMISCOE Research
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9089643923

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Mobility in Transition by Birgit Glorius,Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska,Aimee Kuvik Pdf

Ten central and eastern European countries, along with Cyprus and Malta, joined the European Union in two waves between 2004 and 2007. This volume presents new research on the patterns of migration that resulted from the EU's enlargement. The contributors identify and analyze several new groups of migrants, notably young people without family obligations or clear plans for the future. Including case studies on migrants from Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Latvia--as well as on destination countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany--the resulting collection insightfully points towards future migration trends and sets guidelines for further research.