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Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

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Editors:
  1. Martin Kahanec

    1. Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

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  2. Klaus F. Zimmermann

    1. IZA - Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

    • Martin Kahanec, Mariola Pytliková, Klaus F. Zimmermann
    Pages 1-34

  3. The Redistributive Impacts of Migration After the EU’s Eastern Enlargement

    • Tatiana Fic, Dawn Holland, Paweł Paluchowski, Jonathan Portes
    Pages 35-57

  4. Migration in Italy Is Backing the Old Age Welfare

    • Daniela Del Boca, Alessandra Venturini
    Pages 59-83

  5. Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany

    • Benjamin Elsner, Klaus F. Zimmermann
    Pages 85-101

  6. Ireland’s Recession and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap

    • Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin, Elish Kelly, Seamus McGuinness
    Pages 103-122

  7. Post-enlargement Migration and Adjustment in a Receiving Country: The Case of Sweden

    • Christer Gerdes, Eskil Wadensjö
    Pages 123-138

  8. Labor Mobility as an Adjustment Mechanism in the UK During the Great Recession

    • Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater, Catherine Robinson
    Pages 139-162

  9. Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged EU: The Spanish Perspective

    • Núria Rodríguez-Planas, Lídia Farré
    Pages 163-188

  10. Did Post-enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

    • Martin Kahanec, Lucia Mýtna Kureková
    Pages 189-218

  11. Migration as an Asset? Polish Returnees at the Time of the Crisis

    • Pawel Kaczmarczyk, Marta Anacka, Agnieszka Fihel
    Pages 219-245

  12. Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants During Transition and Enlargements

    • Daniela Andrén, Monica Roman
    Pages 247-269

  13. The Experiences of a New Emigrant Country: Emerging Migration from Hungary

    • Ágnes Hárs
    Pages 271-295

  14. Migration Experience of the Baltic Countries in the Context of Economic Crisis

    • Mihails Hazans
    Pages 297-344

  15. Labor Market Transitions During the Great Recession in Estonia

    • Jaanika Meriküll
    Pages 345-363

  16. Labor Market Policies and Labor Market Flexibility During the Great Recession: The Case of Estonia

    • Raul Eamets
    Pages 365-396

  17. Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants During the Crisis

    • Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann
    Pages 397-418

  18. EU Post-enlargement Migration and the Great Recession: Lessons and Policy Implications

    • Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
    Pages 419-445

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 447-476
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

    Martin Kahanec

  • 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.

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