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A sustainable immigration policy for the EU
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Kahanec, Martin - 2017
A sustainable EU Immigration Policy aims to contribute to a vibrant European society through more effectively and … selectively managed immigration from outside the EU, more attention to integration of immigrants, more rooting out of … have settled. Immigration from outside the EU is often opposed, mainly because of sluggish integration combined with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011637960
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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
but changed the composition of the immigrants, (iii) any negative effects in the labour market on wages or employment are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271082
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271088
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European Union expansion and migration
Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2011
This paper concisely reviews what we know about the experience of an enlarging European Union with free movement of workers within its borders. We focus on the two most recent, Eastern, enlargement waves of 2004 and 2007. We first assess the actual migration flows following the enlargements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419128
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Costs and benefits of labour mobility between the EU and the eastern partnership countries : country study on Germany
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migrants from these countries. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the size and assimilation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201628
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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
an immobile labour force and the eurosklerosis phenomenon. In such a situation, an economically motivated immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260825
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The mobility challenge for growth and integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
Open and flexible labor markets foster growth, development and integration in Europe. The single European labor market is still a vision, however, whereas the core challenge is a lack of sufficient mobility. The presentation discusses the value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128229
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EU Mobility
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Kahanec, Martin; Haas, Jasmina - 2017
The free movement of people and of workers (intra EU mobility) is one of the corner-stones of the EU. It has overwhelmingly benefitted the citizens of the EU member states both in the countries of work and in the countries of origin. Earlier apprehensions on crowding out of less educated workers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011614195
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A vibrant European labor market with full employment
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
We sketch a visionary strategy for Europe in which full employment is quickly regained by 2020, where income inequality … employment is regained by more policy attention toward innovation and its underlying research and development (R&D), accompanied … by more labor mobility within and between EU countries, in combination with a selective immigration policy based on labor …
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