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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 …

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Labor market integration of new immigrants in Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Nollenberger, Natalia - 2014

which they are able to find employment, and their progress out of unskilled work into middle-skilled jobs. Using Spanish … skyrocketed. Immigrants' individual characteristics had a limited effect on their employment trajectories. Although many … employment. …

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2012

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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...

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Promoting youth employment in Europe : evidence-based policy lessons

Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2016

promote youth employment in Europe. In conclusion, one should not be overly optimistic by expecting any short-term remedies …

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The European Youth Guarantee : A Preliminary Assessment and Broader Conceptual Implications

Eichhorst, Werner; Rinne, Ulf - 2017

This paper assesses the current situation of youth unemployment in the European Union. In this context, the main questions are whether the European Youth Guarantee has had any effects and how the school-to-work transitions of young individuals in Europe could be improved.

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"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who, on arrival, do not know their host country's language. It reviews problems of economic integration into the labor market, the consequences of the formation of immigrant...

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Labour mobility and labour market adjustment in the EU

Arpaia, Alfonso; Kiss, Áron; Palvolgyi, Balazs; … - 2015

This paper assesses macroeconomic determinants of labour mobility and its role in the adjustment to asymmetric shocks. First, the paper develops stylised facts of mobility at the national and sub-national levels in the EU. Then, it explores the macroeconomic determinants of bilateral migration...

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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...

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Immigrant key workers : their contribution to Europe's COVID-19 response

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

This note describes the contribution of migrant workers to the ongoing effort to keep basic services running in the Union during the COVID-19 epidemic. We quantify the prevalence of migrant workers in the so called "key professions" that the Commission and Member States have identified using the...

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