Labour Market Flexibility and Migration in the Baltic States: Macro Evidences

Paas, Tiiu; Eamets, Raul; Masso, Jaan; Rõõm, Marit

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“…In an early study of Paas et al (2003), the authors compared flexibility of wages between Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the EU countries before the EU Accession and analyzed the future consequences of international labor migration for the EU labour market. It was assumed that the future effects of the Baltics integration would be insignificant for the EU labour market because of the small population of the Baltic countries.…”

Section: Literature Review: Migration and Remittancesmentioning

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Migrant remittances and their impact on the economic development of the Baltic states

Rausser¹,

Strielkowski²,

Bilan³

et al. 2018

Geographica Pannonica

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This paper studies the determinants of international migration and remittances in the Baltic States (represented hereinafter by Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia). The research reveals a critical view on migrant remittances in terms of macroeconomic development and social conditions in the society of each country involved into our research. In order to investigate and to demonstrate the impact of migrant remittances on GDP and consumption compared with current account balance, minimal wages, and foreign direct investment in the Baltic countries, econometric modeling based on the data of Eurostat, World Bank, and the National banks of the Baltic States has been employed. The results of this research clearly demonstrate that remittances sent by the migrants have high and positive impact on economic development in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Moreover, the findings stemming from this study confirm that minimum wages in the Latvia and Lithuania are far more important determinants of economic development than remittances.

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Section: Literature Review: Migration and Remittancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migrant remittances and their impact on the economic development of the Baltic states

Rausser¹,

Strielkowski²,

Bilan³

et al. 2018

Geographica Pannonica

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“…We thus investigate how far this has been enabled by labour flexibility, and to what extent labour market regulation accords with EU norms. Several studies have reported very high labour market flexibility in the Baltic States, particularly in Estonia (Eamets et al, 2003;Haltiwanger and Vodopivec, 1999;Juraida and Terrell, 2001;Paas et al, 2003). One of our tasks is to investigate how workers are actually protected in this very flexible framework.…”

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The Paradox of the Baltic States: Labour Market Flexibility but Protected Workers?

Eamets

Masso

2005

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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This article assesses the strictness of employment protection legislation and its actual enforcement in the Baltic States. We use information from the applicable legislation as well as employer surveys, data on the coverage of labour legislation and the practice of law enforcement. Overall strictness is close to the average of EU countries and relatively well aligned with EU regulations; individual and collective dismissals are relatively heavily and temporary forms of employment relatively weakly regulated. However, effective flexibility is increased by problems of enforcement: there is much evidence of violations of statutory regulations at enterprise level. In addition, the proportion of the workforce actually covered by the regulations is relatively low. In the Baltic States temporary employment is more widespread, implying a higher level of flexibility than the EU average

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“…The three most widespread WFPs are part-time working (88 per cent of firms), working from home on a regular basis (54 per cent), and flexitime (50 per cent). Moreover, the UK has a relatively high level of labour market flexibility (Whyman, 2006), and labour mobility is shown to be an essential part of it (Monastiriotis, 2003;Paas et al, 2003).…”

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“…The study of workplace flexibility can be based on two theoretical strands of thought. The first, pertaining to the interrelatedness between labour market flexibility and workplace flexibility, argues that labour market flexibility can be measured at both microeconomic and macroeconomic level (see Paas et al, 2003). Studies at the macroeconomic level focus on institutional flexibility which relates to labour legislation, labour policy or trade unions, and wage flexibility, the latter referring to labour market wage adjustments (Paas et al, 2003).…”

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Workforce nationality composition and workplace flexibility in Britain

Whyman

Petrescu

2014

International Journal of Manpower

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Purpose-This paper, with an organisational focus, offers a novel examination of the association between workforce nationality composition and workplace flexibility practices (WFPs), an under-researched topic with high potential benefits at microeconomic and macroeconomic level. Design/methodology/approach-British data is used, as the United Kingdom (UK) has experienced significant immigrant flows and has a relatively high level of labour market flexibility. The Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, sampling 2,500 British workplaces, offers for the first time data on workforce nationality. Via zero-inflated regressions, the number of non-UK nationals employed in a workplace is assessed against a wide range of numerical, functional and cost WFPs. Findings-There are significant links between WFPs and the employment of non-UK nationals, and these are distinct for non-UK nationals from the European Economic Area (EEA) when compared to non-UK nationals from outside the EEA. The former are more likely to be in 'good' employment, with job security, working from home, job autonomy and training. Yet, both types of non-UK nationals are more likely to be employed in workplaces making high use of causal contracts. The implications of these results are discussed. Originality/value-The paper addresses the need to research migration from a relatively new perspective of WFPs while also taking into account the diversity of non-UK nationals. The topic is of importance to organisations, as well as to labour market and migration policymakers. Timely results are of value in view of heightened interest in migration.

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Labour Market Flexibility and Migration in the Baltic States: Macro Evidences

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Migrant remittances and their impact on the economic development of the Baltic states

Migrant remittances and their impact on the economic development of the Baltic states

The Paradox of the Baltic States: Labour Market Flexibility but Protected Workers?

Workforce nationality composition and workplace flexibility in Britain

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