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Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
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This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non-EU … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …
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The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states …. Rather, there appear to have been positive effects on EU's productivity. The sending countries face some risks of losing … from brain gain and brain circulation in an enlarged EU. For the migrants the benefits in terms of better career prospects …
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In this paper we use a dataset that follows a representative sample of native Europeans, resident of 11 countries, over the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by...
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The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...
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experts from organizations working on immigrant integration in the EU is analyzed using simple comparative statistical methods …
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analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
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responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states … enables us to test this hypothesis across various institutional, economic and policy contexts. Drawing on the EU LFS and EU … shortages exceeds that of natives in the EU15, in particular in member states with higher unemployment rates, higher levels of …
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The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member … states' citizens, the need for adjustment became ever more important during the Great Recession, which affected EU member … states unevenly.This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional …
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