Did Post-enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

Martin Kahanec and Lucia Mytna Kurekova

A chapter in Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, 2016, pp 189-218 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Although membership in the European Union (EU) looked like a distant dream to many Slovaks in the 1990s, a remarkable political and economic makeover around the turn of the millennium enabled Slovakia to join the EU in 2004, along with seven other Central-Eastern European countries. EU accession caught Slovakia on a trajectory of population aging and demographic decline. The fertility rate was and still stands significantly below the replacement rate, and the old-age dependency ratio is projected to rise to over 60 % by 2060, marking one of the highest figures among the EU member states (Eurostat 2012). Immigration remains low, standing at around 1 % of the population in 2011, and cannot be expected to sufficiently compensate for these demographic trends in the foreseeable future. The labor market still has not fully absorbed the structural imbalances originating from the pre-1989 command economy.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45320-9_9

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