Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

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

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 476
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume extends and deepens our knowledge about cross-border mobility and its role in an enlarged EU. More specifically, its main purpose is to enlighten the growing and yet rather uninformed debate about the role of post-enlargement migration for economic adjustment in the crisis-stricken labor markets of the Eurozone and the EU as a whole. The book addresses the political economy aspects of post-enlargement migration, including its broader political contexts, redistributive impacts, but also nationalization of the enlargement agenda. It also covers the experience of receiving and sending countries with post-enlargement migration and its role during the current crisis. Renowned experts in the field study, whether and how post-enlargement mobility has enabled the EU to absorb asymmetric economic shocks, how it has affected the European welfare systems, and whether it has contributed to the sustainability of the Eurozone. The authors also evaluate brain circulation as a sought-after vehicle of improved allocative efficiency of EU labor markets and propose a policy agenda for mobility in an enlarged EU.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment....Pages 1-34
The Redistributive Impacts of Migration After the EU’s Eastern Enlargement....Pages 35-57
Migration in Italy Is Backing the Old Age Welfare....Pages 59-83
Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany....Pages 85-101
Ireland’s Recession and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap....Pages 103-122
Post-enlargement Migration and Adjustment in a Receiving Country: The Case of Sweden....Pages 123-138
Labor Mobility as an Adjustment Mechanism in the UK During the Great Recession....Pages 139-162
Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged EU: The Spanish Perspective....Pages 163-188
Did Post-enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia....Pages 189-218
Migration as an Asset? Polish Returnees at the Time of the Crisis....Pages 219-245
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Romanian Migrants During Transition and Enlargements....Pages 247-269
The Experiences of a New Emigrant Country: Emerging Migration from Hungary....Pages 271-295
Migration Experience of the Baltic Countries in the Context of Economic Crisis....Pages 297-344
Labor Market Transitions During the Great Recession in Estonia....Pages 345-363
Labor Market Policies and Labor Market Flexibility During the Great Recession: The Case of Estonia....Pages 365-396
Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants During the Crisis....Pages 397-418
EU Post-enlargement Migration and the Great Recession: Lessons and Policy Implications....Pages 419-445
Back Matter....Pages 447-476

✦ Subjects

Labor Economics; Population Economics; Migration; European Integration; International Economics; Economic Policy