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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

Kahanec, Martin - 2011

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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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union : An Overview

Kahanec, Martin - 2010

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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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU

Giulietti, Corrado - 2011

are not related to unemployment benefit generosity. This suggests that the so-called "welfare migration" debate is …

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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - 2012

have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107468

Immigration in Europe : Trends, Policies and Empirical Evidence

de la Rica, Sara - 2013

This chapter summarizes the main trends, policies and empirical evidence regarding immigration in Europe. We start by providing descriptive evidence on long-term immigration trends and current characteristics of the immigrant populations in various important European destination countries and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072154

Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement

Kahanec, Martin - 2009

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … the ongoing economic crisis may change the momentum of several migration trajectories, free migration should in fact …

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Migration in an Enlarged EU : A Challenging Solution?

Kahanec, Martin - 2009

. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … 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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The Economic Impact of East‐West Migration on the European Union

Kahanec, Martin - 2016

This study contributes to the literature on destination‐country consequences of international migration with … member states over the years 1995‐2010. Using a rich international migration dataset and an empirical model accounting for … the endogeneity of migration flows we find positive and significant effects of post‐enlargement migration flows from new …

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How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts : Evidence from EU Labor Markets

Guzi, Martin - 2015

Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in 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...

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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union : Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Kahanec, Martin - 2014

states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly.This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …

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