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- Title
Theory and Evidence of Labor Migration in Europe.
- Authors
Bauer, Thomas
- Abstract
The paper studies the impact of migration policy liberalization on labor migration in the enlarged EU. Adopting a structural NEC approach, we attempt to assess the direction, size and dynamics of potential labor migration after the end of the 'transitional measures', which are restricting the relocation of workers. According to our simulation results, the liberalization of migration policy would induce additional 2 - 3 percent of the total EU workforce to change their country of location, with most of migrant workers relocating as expected from the East to the West. The average net migration rate is decreasing in the level of integration, and in Portugal and the UK the immigration of workers has even reverted to emigration at higher levels of integration, suggesting that from the economic point of view no regulatory policy responses are necessary to labor migration in the enlarged EU. These results for the CEE-8 suggest that the labor mobility restrictions imposed on workers from the Balkan Member States and the Balkan Candidate Countries are obsolete and should be removed with respect to achieving the objectives of the Europe 2020 Growth Strategy.
- Subjects
EUROPE; IMMIGRATION policy; LABOR mobility; FINANCIAL liberalization; ECONOMIC policy
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Management Research, 2011, Vol 7, p449
- ISSN
1847-0408
- Publication type
Article