Eastern Partnership Migrants in Germany: Outcomes, Potentials and Challenges

Costanza Biavaschi and Klaus Zimmermann ()

No 7861, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold qualifications in those areas were skill shortages are expected. Therefore, the monitoring and supervision of EaP integration will be consequential in order to understand how much of the current brain waste is driven by poor assessment of foreign qualifications, and to unleash the potential of migration for the German economy.

Keywords: eastern partnership countries; labor mobility; foreign qualifications; brain waste (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J61 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41 pages
Date: 2013-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-lma, nep-ltv and nep-mig
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Published - revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies , 2014, 3:7

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