The economic crisis as a driver of cross-border labour mobility? A multi-method perspective on the case of the Central European Region

A preferred workforce? Employment practices of East–West cross-border labour commuters in the Central European Region

“…Between the subregion at the border of Austria and the border regions of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary there is an ongoing structural asymmetry, which juxtaposes different economies with different histories of economic development (Wiesböck et al 2016a). The introduction of a common institutional framework intends to diminish these asymmetries; however, up until now the relatively high social inequality between the Austrian subregions and their neighbours-in terms of household income, unemployment rate, poverty rate and regional gross domestic product (GDP) levels-continues to play an important role (Wiesböck et al 2016b).…”

Integration in times of economic decline. Migrant inclusion in Southern European societies: trends and theoretical implications

“…Particularly fertile have been works that analysed intra-EU mobility and return of immigrants as a major effect of economic turbulence and unemployment (e.g. Bastia 2011; Kahanec and Zimmermann 2016;Wiesböck et al 2016;Lafleur and Stanek 2017;Trenz and Triandafyllidou 2017) as well as the relationship between crisis-determined migration flows and national welfare policies (e.g. Clark, Drinkwater, and Robinson 2013;Keskinen, Norocel, and Jorgensen 2016).…”

Mapping the Qualitative Migration Research in Europe: An Exploratory Analysis

“…We are fully aware that we could have cited other articles from our research pool of 627 QMR-E articles, but practical reasons obliged us to limit our references. (Cappiali 2016), expert interviews (Menz 2002;Helbling 2010;Wiesböck et al 2016), biographical/ narrative interviews (Liversage 2009;Qureshi 2016), and problem-centered interviews (Konzett-Smoliner 2016; Verwiebe et al 2016). Unlike interviews in general, focus groups have been much less common.…”

“…This ratio has been generally stable over time. Among mixed-method research, it has been a common practice to combine qualitative interviews with quantitative surveys (Parella et al 2013;Wiesböck et al 2016) as well as bringing together qualitative and census data sources (Hickman 2011;McGarrigle 2016). Moreover, another form of mixedmethod research included studies combining quantitative media content analysis with different forms of in-depth-textual research such as discourse analysis (for example, see Bauder 2008) (Fig.…”

“…Some examples of comparisons at meso-level included comparing across political parties, host organisations (Batnitzky and McDowell 2013;Simpson 2015), and migrant organisations (De Tona and Lentin 2011). While some of the cross-time analysis compared policies over a period of time (Howard 2010), some others engaged in before-and-after type of comparisons, such as comparing high-skilled migration policies (Cerna 2016) or East-West cross-border labor mobility (Wiesböck et al 2016) before and after the economic crisis.…”