Post-Enlargement Migration and the Great Recession in the E(M)U: Lessons and policy implications

Martin Kahanec and Klaus Zimmermann ()

No 2016-066, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: This paper summarises key results from our research about post-enlargement mobility in the EU. We clarify its scope, composition and effects; labour market situation of mobile workers; the role of labour mobility as a vehicle of economic stabilisation; as well as brain circulation and return migration. We also outline a policy agenda for a labour mobility model for a vibrant EU, enabling Europe to cope with labour market imbalances and asymmetric economic shocks, and providing for a more prosperous, cohesive and equal EU.

Keywords: EU enlargement; free movement of workers; labour mobility; migration policy; business cycle; stabilisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J68 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11-21
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