Overview
Addresses some of the most controversial and debated topics in contemporary migration in an enlarged EU, including the effects of the economic crisis
Deeply rooted in rigorous analysis of hard data, thereby distinguishing myths and reality of EU mobility
Useful reference and guide for scholars, interested professionals and policy makers
Strongly opposes to recent policy debates in EU member states on new restrictions for mobility and labor migration
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Table of contents(17 chapters)
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Martin Kahanec
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IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
Klaus F. Zimmermann
About the editors
Martin Kahanec is Associate Professor and PhD track representative (Public Policy) at the Central European University in Budapest and founder and Scientific Director of the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) in Bratislava. At the same time Kahanec is Visiting Research Fellow, Deputy Program Director "Migration", the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany. He has held several advisory positions and leading roles in a number of scientific and policy projects with the World Bank, the European Commission, and other international and national institutions. Among his publications are various contributions to the economics of migration.
Klaus F. Zimmermann is Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany as well as Full Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn and Honorary Professor at the Free University of Berlin and the Renmin University of China. Among others he serves as fellow of various scientific institutions and member of the Academia Europaea, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Migration. Zimmermann regularly advises the World Bank, the European Commission, the European Parliament and governments on the national and international level. Migration and labor mobility are at the core of his intensive research and policy advice activities. His numerous publications in the field cover all aspects of worldwide migration flows, ethnic diversity, and labor market integration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession
Editors: Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45320-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45319-3Published: 20 May 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-56880-4Published: 27 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45320-9Published: 11 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 476
Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations
Topics: Labor Economics, Population Economics, Migration, European Integration, International Economics, Economic Policy