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European labour mobility : challenges and potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low -skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of...

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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as well as sending countries in three broader areas: labour...

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High-skilled immigration policy in Europe

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...

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An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The standard approach of analysing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...

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Migration, co-ordination failures and EU enlargement

Boeri, Tito (contributor); Brücker, Herbert (contributor) - 2005

EU leaders are well aware of the relevance of migration in the European policy agenda. Thirty-two pages out of forty-eight of the Presidency Conclusions at the November 2004 European Council were devoted to migration policies. Economic theory suggests that there is a strong case for policy...

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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...

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The effect of migration on careers of natives : evidence from long-term care

Haan, Peter; Wnuk, Izabela - 2024

This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...

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Crimea and punishment : the impact of sanctions on Russian and European economies

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Netšunajev, Aleksei - 2016

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2014 resulted in bilateral economic sanctions imposed by …

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The war in Europe : economic costs of the Ukrainian conflict

Bluszcz, Julia; Valente, Marica - 2019

the Donbass region, Ukraine's productive core, has taken a severe toll on the country. Using cross-country panel data over … the period 1995-2017, this paper quantifies the short-term causal effects of the Donbass war on Ukraine's GDP. Results … from the counterfactual estimation by the synthetic control method show that Ukraine's per capita GDP foregone due to the …

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