EU LABOUR MIGRATION SINCE ENLARGEMENT
EU Labour Migration since Enlargement
Trends, Impacts and Policies
Edited by
BLA GALGCZI
JANINE LESCHKE
ANDREW WATT
European Trade Union Institute, Belgium
First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
EU labour migration since enlargement : trends, impacts and policies
1. Alien labor - European Union countries 2. Migrant labor - European Union countries
I. Galgczi, Bla II. Leschke, Janine III. Watt, Andrew
331.544094-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Galgczi, Bla.
EU labour migration since enlargement : trends, impacts and policies / by Bla Galgczi and Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7684-3
1. Working class--European Union countries. 2. Migration, Internal--European Union countries. 3. Alien labor--European Union countries--Government policy. 4. European Union countries--Emigration and immigration. I. Leschke, Janine II. Watt, Andrew. III. Title.
HD8380.5.W38 2009
331.62094--dc22
2008052664
ISBN 978-0-7546-7684-3 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1-3155-8071-5 (ebk)
Contents
Bla Galgczi, Janine Leschke and Andrew Watt
Sonia McKay
Jason Heyes
Per Lundborg
Monika Arvidsson
Max Friedrich Steinhardt
Simon Fellmer and Holger Kolb
Ewald Walterskirchen
Gnther Chaloupek and Johannes Peyrl
Agnieszka Fihel and Marek Oklski
Robert Szewczyk and Joanna Unterschtz
gnes Hrs
Szilvia Borbly
Prsla Eglte and Zaiga Krijne
Aija Lulle
List of Figures
List of Tables and Boxes
Boxes
Notes on Contributors
Monika Arvidsson, an economist, is employed at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation (LO) where she is responsible for analysis and policy-making in the fields of international macro-economics and migration. She is a member of the ETUC working group on migration and inclusion, of the Advisory Committee on free movement of workers to the European Commission, a deputy member of the Economic and Employment committee of the Social dialogue and of the ETUC Economic and Employment committee. She has been secretary of several working groups of LO affiliates formed to draw up a joint LO policy.
Szilvia Borbly gained a Ph.D. in Economics at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and a dr. oec. in Scientia Oeconomiae Universalis at the University of Economics of Budapest. She is a senior expert and member of the Board of Economic and Social Research Institute of Trade Unions and senior expert of the National Confederation of Hungarian Trade Unions. She has published over 20 books and more than 100 articles, essays and papers on issues relating to the labour market, industrial relations, macro-and micro economics, gender issues. Some 30 of these publications have appeared in foreign languages.
Gnther K. Chaloupek, Dr. iur. University of Vienna 1969, M.A. (economics) University of Kansas, Lawrence, Ks., USA, 1971, is director of the economic research department of the Austrian Chamber of Labour, a member of the Advisory Council for Economic and Social Affairs, and vice-president of the Government Debt Committee. He has published numerous articles (in German and in English) in journals and contributions to books in the field of history of economic theory.
Prsla Eglte Dr. geogr. and Dr. oec. (demogr.), a Corresponding Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences and head of research projects at the Institute of Economics, Latvian Academy of Sciences. Her main research areas are social demography, long-term migration, and population policy.
Simon Fellmer, Diplom-konom, works at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies of the University of Osnabrck for the nationwide scientific network Rat fr Migration (Council for Migration). His research focuses on the development of national and of the common European migration policy with a focus on questions of labour migration.
Agnieszka Fihel, a Ph.D. student in economic sciences, is a doctoral fellow at the Faculty of Economic Sciences and the Centre of Migration Research (CMR) at the University of Warsaw. At the CMR she has participated in research projects referring to contemporary demographic processes, such as migration movements in European perspective, spatial patterns of immigration in Poland and, last but not least, return migration to Poland. She has published mostly on international migration from the new EU member states.
Bla Galgczi graduated in electronic engineering and then in sociology and philosophy in Budapest, subsequently gaining a Ph.D. in Economics. He currently works as Senior Researcher at the European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, Belgium. His fields of research include capital and labour mobility in an enlarged Europe in the global environment with a view to labour market developments, industrial relations and collective bargaining.
Dr gnes Hrs, Senior Research Fellow at the Kopint-Trki Economic Research Institute in Budapest and associate member of the Migration and Refugee Research Centre of the Research Institute of Ethnic and National Minorities at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, member of the IMISCOE network, works extensively in the field of labour migration and is mainly involved in East-West migration, coordinating research projects of international comparative studies and national policy-supporting background papers.
Dr Jason Heyes is Reader in Human Resource Management and Head of the International Management and Organisation group at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK. He has conducted research on behalf of a variety of bodies, including trade unions, the Low Pay Commission (UK) and the International Labour Organisation. His main research interest is in the connections between employment relations, the labour market and public policy. His research has explored these issues in relation to vulnerable groups in the labour market, including young workers, homeworkers, migrant workers, those in undeclared employment and the low-paid.
