Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members’ labor markets

Zaiceva, Anzelika

doi:10.15185/izawol.40

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“…The empirical literature on emigration effects on labour markets is diverse, encompassing various methodologies and data, and thus resulting in various conclusions. Moreover, the research is focused on exploring wage effects of emigration, while only a small number of papers try to analyse the unemployment effects of emigration on emigrant countries (e.g., Barrell Zaiceva, 2014). As a result, there is no general conclusion regarding the direction of effect of emigration on labour markets in emigrant countries.…”

Section: Theoretical and Empirical Background Relevant For The Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effect of emigration on unemployment rates: the case of EU emigrant countries

Škuflić

Vučković

2018

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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This paper analyses the effects of emigration on emigrant countries' unemployment rates (short-term effect) in selected EU emigrant countries. The panel data analysis (fixed-effects model) covers the period from 2004 to 2015, and a total of nine EU countries: Bulgaria; Estonia; Greece; Croatia; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; Portugal; and Romania. The obtained results show that emigration increases the unemployment rate in emigrant countries confirming that, besides generally expected positive effects in terms of a fall in unemployment, emigration could also have an adverse effect on emigrant countries' labour markets. Such results point to structural issues in the labour market caused by emigration, i.e., an increase in the labour supply and demand mismatch, which is discussed in the paper through the descriptive analysis of Job Vacancy Rate (JVR) data.

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Section: Theoretical and Empirical Background Relevant For The Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

The effect of emigration on unemployment rates: the case of EU emigrant countries

Škuflić

Vučković

2018

Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja

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“…Elsner (2013a;2013b) documents that post-accession outmigration from Lithuania, one of the countries with the highest outmigration rates, has resulted in higher wages within the country. Zaiceva (2014) finds that outmigration reduced excess supply of labor, lowered unemployment, and increased wages in NMSs and led to additional positive effects through remittances and possibly brain gain.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several studies document that these migrants downskill into jobs below their qualification level, which, besides affecting the individual migrants, also results in decreased output per worker in the receiving labor markets (Dustmann et al 2003;Kahanec et al 2013). The risk of brain drain, skill shortages and imbalances, inflationary pressures and adverse demographic consequences of outmigration on sending countries have been discussed in the literature (Hazans and Philips 2010;Kaczmarczyk, Mioduszewska, and Zilic 2010;Kahanec and Zimmermann 2010;Zaiceva 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Kahanec

Pytlíková

Zimmermann

2016

Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACT The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic AdjustmentThe eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people. Although many old member states applied transitional arrangements temporarily restricting the free movement of new member states' citizens, the need for adjustment became ever more important during the Great Recession, which affected EU member states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets affected by asymmetric economic shocks. Using a new migration dataset and treating the EU enlargement and labor market openings towards the new EU members as a natural experiment allows us to estimate the effects of the EU accession and economic opportunities on migration. Applying the difference-in-differences and triple differences empirical modeling framework, we subsequently find that east-west migration flows in the EU responded positively to the EU entry and economic opportunities in receiving labor markets. However, this potential through which migration helped to ease the imbalances across EU labor markets was hampered by transitional arrangements, which negatively affected the flows of east-west migrants. We conclude that the free movement of workers is an asset that the EU needs to nurture as a means of adjusting to structural economic asymmetries as well as to short-run shocks across EU member states.JEL Classification: F22, J61, J68

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“…growth" (Zaiceva 2014;Richter and Witkowski 2014). Whether in the postcrisis period a positive growth-employment relationship will be established still remains to be seen.…”

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Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Immigration Policies and Labour Market Outcomes: Comparing Croatia with Hungary and Slovenia

Botrić

2016

Croatian International Relations Review

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The paper provides comparative evidence on attitudes towards immigrants, their labour market outcomes and policies in Croatia and two neighbouring countries -Slovenia and Hungary. Three different data sources have been used: the European Social Survey, an ad-hoc Labour Force Survey module for the year 2014, and the MIPEX index. Although immigrants have a disadvantaged position on the Croatian labour market, most analysed indicators do not imply that they are in a worse position than in other European economies. Migrant integration policies related to the labour market are assessed as being relatively favourable for Croatia. Judging by the comparable indicators for the native population in Croatia, immigrants' adverse labour market outcomes seem to be more related to the unfavourable general economic situation, and particularly by the deep and long recession.

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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members’ labor markets

Cited by 29 publications

References 9 publications

The effect of emigration on unemployment rates: the case of EU emigrant countries

The effect of emigration on unemployment rates: the case of EU emigrant countries

The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Immigration Policies and Labour Market Outcomes: Comparing Croatia with Hungary and Slovenia

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