The Integration Of European Labour Markets

Combining both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book provides authoritative insights into the integration of European labour markets against the background of increasing international labour mobility. A wide range of contributions explore, in particular, the effects that labour mobility has had on the earnings and employment situation of individual households, on the effective supply of labour, and on the availability of skills in migrants’ home and host countries as well as on the size of income support through migrants’ remittances. Global and European trends and patterns are discussed along with related policy challenges – all with a special focus on European migration after EU enlargement – and the nexus between labour markets and trade integration. This book will be an invaluable source of information for economists and other economic policy and European integration experts from central, commercial and investment banks, governments, international organizations, universities and research institutes alike.

Preface Introduction: The Successful Integration of European Labour Markets Matters Ewald Nowotny PART I: THE EFFECTS OF MIGRATION ON LABOUR MARKETS 1. Labour Mobility and the Integration of European Labour Markets Klaus F. Zimmermann 2. The Difficulties of Managing Labour Migration: Spain’s Experience in the European Context Joaquín Arango 3. Can International Migration Ever be Made a Pareto Improvement? Gabriel Felbermayr and Wilhelm Kohler 4. Do Stricter Migration Policies Deter FDI? Peter Egger and Doina Maria Radulescu PART II: EUROPEAN MIGRATION AFTER EU ENLARGEMENT 5. Labour Mobility in the Enlarged EU: Causes, Constraints and Potential Herbert Brücker 6. Polish Emigration to the UK After EU Enlargement in 2004: A ‘Natural Experiment’ for Testing the Rationality of Migration Choice Katarzyna B. Budnik 7. Immigration, Occupation and Wages Stephen Nickell and Jumana Saleheen 8. Emigration, Labour Shortages and Brain Drain in the New EU Member States: Some Descriptive Evidence Radek Malý and Christoph Maier 9. International Migration and Remittances in the Balkans: The Case of Bulgaria Vesselin Mintchev PART III: LABOUR MARKETS AND TRADE INTEGRATION 10. Economic Integration and Labour Market Policy in EMU Giuseppe Bertola 11. New Trade in New Europe Henryk Kierzkowski 12. The Wage Effects of Economic Integration: A Sectoral Perspective in the Enlarged European Union Éva Katalin Polgár and Julia Woerz 13. The Distributional Effects of Trade on Austrian Wages Wolfgang Pointner Index