EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration

✍ Scribed by Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann (auth.), Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Are immigrants from the new EU member states a threat to the Western welfare state? Do they take jobs away from the natives? And will the source countries suffer from severe brain drain or demographic instability? In a timely and unprecedented contribution, this book integrates what is known about post-enlargement migration and its effects on EU labor markets. Based on rigorous analysis and hard data, it makes a convincing case that there is no evidence that the post-enlargement labor migrants would on aggregate displace native workers or lower their wages, or that they would be more dependent on welfare. While brain drain may be a concern in the source countries, the anticipated brain circulation between EU member states may in fact help to solve their demographic and economic problems, and improve the allocative efficiency in the EU. The lesson is clear: free migration is a solution rather than a foe for labor market woes and cash-strapped social security systems in the EU.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement....Pages 3-45
Labor Mobility in the Enlarged EU: Who Wins, Who Loses?....Pages 47-70
Post-Enlargement Migration and Public Perception in the European Union....Pages 71-107
Front Matter....Pages 110-110
EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market....Pages 111-129
The Experience of Spain with the Inflows of New Labor Migrants....Pages 131-144
EU Enlargement and Ireland’s Labor Market....Pages 145-161
Post-Enlargement Migration and Labor Market Impact in Sweden....Pages 163-179
The Impact of the Recent Expansion of the EU on the UK Labor Market....Pages 181-215
Front Matter....Pages 218-218
Impact of the Post-Accession Migration on the Polish Labor Market....Pages 219-253
The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets....Pages 255-304
The Case of Albania....Pages 305-334
Back Matter....Pages 1-10

✦ Subjects

Labor Economics; European Integration; Social Policy