Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession
Editors: Kahanec, Martin, Zimmermann, Klaus F. (Eds.)
Free Preview- 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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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (17 chapters)
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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment
Pages 1-34
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The Redistributive Impacts of Migration After the EU’s Eastern Enlargement
Pages 35-57
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Migration in Italy Is Backing the Old Age Welfare
Pages 59-83
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Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Pages 85-101
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Ireland’s Recession and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
Pages 103-122
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession
- Editors
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- Martin Kahanec
- Klaus F. Zimmermann
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-662-45320-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-662-45320-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-45319-3
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-662-56880-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VIII, 476
- Number of Illustrations
- 94 b/w illustrations
- Topics
