Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12516-4_5

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“…The benefits for the sending states consist in the reduction of unemployment among unskilled workers and an increase in wages and remittances channelled into the development of new and existing businesses. Receiving states benefit from the reduction of labour market tensions, since migrant workers fill the gaps in low-status job sectors (Kahanec and Zimmermann, 2009). Finally, the benefits for migrants are legal migratory and employment channels, higher wages compared with their countries of origin, and the development of new skills (Holzmann and Munz, 2004).…”

Section: The Limits Of Mainstream Approaches To Intra-eu Labour Migramentioning

confidence: 99%

From labour migration to labour mobility? The return of the multinational worker in Europe

Andrijasevic

Sacchetto

2016

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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There is currently a large knowledge gap about intra-European labour migration. Existing scholarship focuses overwhelmingly on the movement of workers from East to West Europe. Commentators are caught up in a debate over whether such movement is best understood in terms of social dumping and hence a race to the bottom, or in terms of business opportunities and benefits for firms, states and migrants. The argument put forward in this article is that both approaches are inadequate in that they focus attention on a linear East-to-West movement and discuss this movement from the vantage point of the state, businesses and trade unions in the country of destination. It is our suggestion that such readings of intra-European labour migration fail to grasp the changes in labour force behaviour engendered by freedom of movement and European Union citizenship. In order to gain a clearer understanding of emerging migration patterns in the enlarged Europe, this article adopts mobility as the analytical lens though which to examine the integration of labour markets as well as the tensions between capital, trade unions and labour to which mobility gives rise. Building on fieldwork and interviews with migrant workers conducted at Foxconn electronics assembly plants in the Czech Republic, the article illustrates processes of both segregation and mobilisation produced by intra-European labour mobility, and suggests that the term 'multinational' worker is best suited to convey the experiences and practices of this emergent workforce.

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Section: The Limits Of Mainstream Approaches To Intra-eu Labour Migramentioning

confidence: 99%

From labour migration to labour mobility? The return of the multinational worker in Europe

Andrijasevic

Sacchetto

2016

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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“…The question of selectivity to return is of major importance in the context of the wage assimilation of returnees. A number of empirical studies, including Kahanec and Zimmermann (2010), Pungas, Toomet, Tammaru, and Anniste (2012), Kahanec and Kureková (2014), and White (2014) have been devoted to the analysis of selection to return patterns and their interrelation with post-return integration outcomes.…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The recent EU eastward enlargement resulted in substantial East-West migration flows, especially among young and highly educated people from CEE countries (Kahanec & Zimmermann, 2010). As a large share of migration processes is temporary by nature, return labour migration is particularly relevant in this context.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The labour market performance of young return migrants after the crisis in CEE countries: the case of Estonia

Tverdostup

Masso

2016

Baltic Journal of Economics

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This paper extends the earlier literature on the effects of return migration by studying selection and labour market performance in terms of the wages of young returnees in particular. The topic is motivated by various labour market issues for young people and their high exposure to the consequences of the recent financial crisis. We use Estonian Labour Force Survey data and Estonian Population and Housing Census 2011 data in combination with Estonian Tax and Customs Office data on individual payroll taxes. The econometric analysis focuses on the selection to temporary migration and the estimation of wage premium to return, along with the decomposition of the returneestayer wage gap using the Oaxaca-Blinder approach and an investigation of wage premium dynamics over time after return. The results generally show higher returns from temporary labour migration for young people relative to older people, and among youth, the share of the unexplained fraction of the wage premium is also higher. These results imply a stronger role of experience gained abroad on earnings for youth. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Migration trends in CEE have received significant attention from scholars in recent years (see Kahanec & Zimmermann 2009Kaczmarczyk & Okólski 2008b;White & Ryan 2008;Wadensjö 2007;Glytsos 2009;Galgoczi, Leschke & Watt 2009;Barrett & Duffy 2008). Previous research has examined the consequences of emigration on the labour markets of sending and receiving countries and the possible negative effects of brain drain (Sarvutyte & Streimikiene 2010;Thaut 2009;Eglīte 2006;Krisjane 2008;Kaczmarczyk & Okólski 2008a;Hazans & Philips 2009).…”

Section: The Changing Face Of Migration In the Baltic Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Male workers make up the largest share of all immigrants (Kahanec & Zimmermann 2009). Migration is traditionally understood to be highly selective by age, with migrants trending relatively younger -unsurprisingly, the largest proportion of all migrants to the United Kingdom (more than 40 per cent) is in the 18-24 age group (Department for Work and Pensions 2010; Kahanec, Zaiceva & Zimmermann 2010).…”

Section: Post-accession Migration From the Baltic Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%