European Migration

What Do We Know?

Buch | Hardcover

680 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-925735-5 (ISBN)

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The design of a coherent migration policy is crucial for Europe, which is far behind countries in North America and Australasia. This book summarizes the evidence in Europe and contrasts it with the experiences of those countries. It provides a picture of migration policies across countries and draws policy-conclusions.

Developed countries, especially in Europe, face a number of issue related to migration: social and economic disruptions caused by the declining demand for unskilled labour and resulting unemployment, a shortage of skilled labour in many professions, increasing international competition for highly qualified human capital, radical demographic changes, and the forthcoming expansion of the European Union, which will trigger further immigration into major European countries and create new market opportunities in Central and Eastern Europe.

This suggests a need for a deeper knowledge of the causes and consequences of increased labour mobility. This is especially important when it is associated with tension and fears among native populations. This book brings together analyses of migration issues in major European countries, and compares evidence with more countries that have traditionally seen the most immigration.

First, it studies migration streams since World War II, and reviews major migration policy regimes. Second, it summarizes the empirical evidence measuring wages, unemployment, and occupational choices. Third, it investigates how migrants affects the labour markets of their host countries, and evaluates econometric studies into the wage and employment consequences of immigration.

Surprisingly, there is wide evidence that immigration is largely beneficial for receiving countries. There might be phases of adjustment, but there is no convincing evidence that natives' wages are depressed or unemployment increases as a consequence of migrant inflow. However, there is a growing impression that migration does serve less and less the needs of the labour market. This suggests a stronger focus on economic channels of immigration, for which the book provides a conceptual basis and the required empirical facts and institutional background.

Klaus Zimmermann is Professor of Economics at Bonn University and Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA Bonn). He is also President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London, Associate Research Fellow of the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, Research Associate of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) at the University of California-San Diego, and member of the "Group of Economic Analysis" (GEA) to the President of the EU Commission. He has written and edited over thirty books and numerous papers.

1. The Economics of Migration ; 2. From Boom to Bust: The Economic Integration of Immigrants in Postwar Sweden ; 3. Migration in an Scandanavian Welfare State: The Recent Danish Experience ; 4. Irish Migration: Characteristics, Causes, and Consequences ; 5. Migration, Migrants, and Policy in the United Kingdom ; 6. The Netherlands: Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country ; 7. German Migration: Development, Assimilation, and Labour Market Effects ; 8. Immigrant Adjustment in France and Impacts on the Natives ; 9. Italian Migration ; 10. Greek Migration: The two faces of Janus ; 11. Migrations in Spain: Historical Background and Current Trends ; 12. International Migration from and to Portugal: What Do We Know and Where Are We Going? ; 13. Aliyah to Israel: Immigration Under Conditions of Adversity ; 14. The New Immigrants (USA) ; 15. Canadian Immigration Experience: Any Lesson for Europe? ; 16. Europeans in the Antipodes: New Zealand's Mixed Immigration Experience

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.3.2005
Zusatzinfo	numerous tables and figures
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	164 x 242 mm
Gewicht	1166 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	0-19-925735-3 / 0199257353
ISBN-13	978-0-19-925735-5 / 9780199257355
Zustand	Neuware