Editors and Authors. Martin Kahanec. Klaus F. Zimmermann

Editors and Authors Martin Kahanec Martin Kahanec is Deputy Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn. Furthermore he serves as the institute s Deputy Program Director of the research area Migration, and as project leader of the sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets. He has held several advisory positions and participated in a number of scientific and policy projects with the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, and other international and national institutions, including coordination of the Study on the Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities and Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants funded by the European Commission. He obtained his doctoral degree in Economics at the Centre for Economic Research (CentER), Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Kahanec has published in refereed journals, co-authored a chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality, and edited scientific volumes and a journal special issue. His main research expertise is in labor and population economics, ethnicity, and migration. Klaus F. Zimmermann Since 1998 Klaus F. Zimmermann has been Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) and Full Professor of Economics at the University of Bonn. Moreover, he serves as President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin, since 2000), Honorary Professor of Economics at the Free University of Berlin (since 2001) and Honorary Professor at the Renmin University of Peking (since 2006). He engages in a variety of policy advice activities, e.g. as advisor to the President of the EU Commission (2001-2003 and since 2005), as economic advisor to the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia (since 2008), and as member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Migration. Since 1988 Klaus F. Zimmermann has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics. He serves as Associate Editor for various scientific journals and is author or editor of 33 books and over 190 papers in refereed journals and collected volumes. His special research interests center on labor economics, population economics, migration, industrial organization, and econometrics. 335

336 Editors and Authors Timo Baas Timo Baas is a Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg. He holds a doctoral scholarship at the University of Potsdam and has been visiting fellow at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Berlin from 2004 to 2006 and, from 2004 onwards, a lecturer at the Free University of Berlin. His research centers on international migration, European integration, and the construction of macroeconomic models. Alan Barrett Alan Barrett is Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin. Between 2001 and 2003 he worked for the Irish Finance Ministry. He has been an IZA Research Fellow since 1998. His main research interest is migration, and he has published on the topic in journals such as the Journal of Population Economics, Labour Economics and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Barrett also writes on developments in and prospects for the Irish economy, through his co-authorship of the ESRI's Quarterly Economic Commentary. David G. Blanchflower David Blanchflower holds a chair as Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College, acts as Program Director of the Future of Labor research program at IZA, and is a Research Associate at the NBER. He was an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) at the Bank of England from 2006-2009. Blanchflower has published in numerous refereed journals and has been a member of the Editorial Board of Small Business Economics, of the Editorial Board of Scottish Journal of Political Economy and of the Editorial Board of Industrial & Labor Relations Review. Karl Brenke Karl Brenke has been a Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) since 1985. From 1983 to 1985 he worked as a Research Associate at the Research Institute Social Economy of Labor at the Free University of Berlin. He has studied sociology, economics, statistics and philosophy and holds a M. phil. in sociology. Among his broad research interests are demographic change and migration.

Editors and Authors 337 Herbert Brücker Herbert Brücker is Professor of Economics at the University of Bamberg and head of the Department for International Comparisons and European Integration at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg. Previously, he was a Research Associate at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). In 2000 he joined IZA as a Research Fellow. He has received his habilitation in economics from the Technical University of Berlin in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Frankfurt a.m. in 2004. His research interests focus on international migration, labor markets and international economics. Marcel Canoy Marcel Canoy is Professor in the Economics of Healthcare at the University of Tilburg and at the same time chief economist of ECORYS, an international company specializing in economic, spatial and social development. He has held several post-doctoral positions at the universities of Paris, Maastricht and Leuven, and worked for the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB) from 1996 to 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he worked as economic adviser to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission in Brussels, where he advised inter alia on the internal market, the future of the welfare state and migration. Zvezda Dermendzhieva Zvezda Dermendzhieva is a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE-EI) in Prague and a Junior Researcher at the Economics Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences. She has lectured Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and Labor Economics at the Prague School of Economics and held a research intern position at the United Nations University in Helsinki, Finland.

338 Editors and Authors Randall K. Filer Randall K. Filer is Professor of Economics at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. In addition he acts as a Visiting Professor of Economics and Senior Scholar at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education (CERGE-EI) in Prague. Furthermore he is President of the CERGE-EI Foundation, the Eastern European Coordinator of the Global Development Network, Chair of the International Faculty Committee at the International School of Economics in Tbilisi, Georgia (ISET), and a Research Fellow at IZA. Filer s research findings have been published in leading professional journals including American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and European Economic Review. His areas of expertise include financial and capital markets, labor markets, urban economics, demography and development economics, including the economic transition in the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Christer Gerdes Christer Gerdes is Assistant Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) in Stockholm and is affiliated to the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS). Her research interests are focused on various aspects of immigration, mostly by doing empirical research on immigration into Nordic countries. In autumn 2008 she completed her Ph.D. thesis on Studying the Interplay of Immigration and Welfare States. Andreas Hauptmann Andreas Hauptmann has been a Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research in Nuremberg (IAB) since 2008 in the area International Comparisons and European Integration. He received his diploma in economics at the University of Wuerzburg and started his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Glasgow in September 2008. His research focuses on migration, macroeconomic modeling and labor market structures.

Editors and Authors 339 Mihails Hazans Mihails Hazans is Professor of Econometrics at the University of Latvia and a Research Associate at the Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS). He has served as an expert or consultant for OECD, World Bank, ILO, European Commission and European Training Foundation. Focusing on the Baltic and Balkan countries, he has published on migration, commuting, education, economics of minorities, labor supply, determinants of earnings, job search, working conditions, and policy evaluation. Anna Horvath Anna Horvath is a social science adviser at the Eurydice European Unit at the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in Brussels, and a doctoral candidate at the Department of Political Science of the Central European University in Budapest. Her research interests include social inclusion, immigration and education policies in the European Union. Agnès Hubert Agnès Hubert is an adviser in the think tank of the European Commission. She holds degrees in Economics and Political Science from the University of Paris 1- Sorbonne. She has held positions of responsibilities in the European Institutions in the last 20 years, in international commodity agreements; information and communication and in gender issues. From 1992 to 1996, she directed the unit for gender equality and has continued since to work on gender issues in the Forward Studies Unit and when seconded for two years to the Women s rights committee of the European Parliament. She also contributed to the White paper on European Governance (2001) as a member of the governance team of the Commission. Among many other contributions, she authored books on L'Europe et les femmes, identités en mouvement, and Democracy and Information Society in Europe.

340 Editors and Authors Paweł Kaczmarczyk Paweł Kaczmarczyk is Vice Director of the Centre of Migration Research at the University of Warsaw and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw. He is also a member of the Board of Strategic Advisers to the Prime Minister of Poland. His main research areas include causes and consequences of labor migration (with special attention paid to analysis of migration processes in central and east European countries), labor economics, international economics and migration policy. Kaczmarczyk is author of many publications in the field. Helen Lawton Helen Lawton has been working as an Economist at the Bank of England since 2002. Together with David G. Blanchflower in his position as an External Member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee she authored several studies on the economics of migration. Helen Lawton studied economics at the University of Cambridge. Frédéric Lerais Frédéric Lerais was a member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisors (BEPA) from 2005 to 2009, and has dealt with various European social issues. He started his career at the French Observatory of Economic Conjunctures (OFCE) in Paris. Afterwards, he managed the mission for economic analysis of the Directorate for animation of research, studies and statistics (DARES), at the French Ministry of Labour. This mission carried out economic and empirical studies of the labor market. Lerais is graduated from the École nationale de la statistique et de l administration économique (ENSAE) and from the University of Paris I (Pantheon Sorbonne). Marta Mioduszewska Marta Mioduszewska graduated from the Department of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw in 2008. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economic Sciences and Research Assistant at the Centre of Migration Research (CMR), University of Warsaw.

Editors and Authors 341 Kaia Philips Kaia Philips is Associate Professor of Statistics and Vice-Dean at the University of Tartu, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Her research include human capital, workers flows and job flows, free movement of labor, industrial relations and trade unions in transition countries. She has served as expert for European Foundation, European Commission and other international organisations in numerous international research projects. Myriam Sochacki Myriam Sochacki has been a member of the European Commission s Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA), Brussels since 2005. She obtained a Master s degree in French literature at Paris Sorbonne, followed by a post-graduation in communication at CELSA/Sorbonne. She joined the French Navy in 1984 and served as a public relations and communication expert, including from 1994 to 1996 as a spokesperson in Sarajevo. In 1996 she became Head of Press and Information of the Western European Union, Brussels. From 2001 to 2004 she was project manager of a program on security issues and the Euro-American relationship developed with the support of the Luso-American Foundation, Lisbon. Eskil Wadensjö Eskil Wadensjö is Professor of Labor Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. He was President of the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) from 1993 to 1999 and Chairman of the Swedish Economic Association from 1992 to 1993 and has been member of several governmental committees. He has been IZA Research Fellow since 2000. His main research interests include the economics of international migration, labor market policy and social security. He is director of the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), a large ten-year research program founded by the Swedish Research Council.

342 Editors and Authors Mutlu Yuksel Mutlu Yuksel has been a Research Associate at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, since 2007, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Houston, USA in May 2007. His research interests include Labor Economics, Development Economics, and Migration. His current research focuses on discrimination, assimilation, intergenerational mobility, and the effects of immigration on natives. Anzelika Zaiceva Anzelika Zaiceva joined the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) as a Research Associate in 2006. Since 2007 she is also a Research Fellow at the University of Bologna, where she takes part in a research project on The Political Economy of Unemployment in Transition Economies. She received her Ph.D. in Economics in 2007 at the European University Institute in Florence. As a member of IZA s research programs on Migration and Transition and Emerging Economies her research interests focuses on these topics but also includes labor and population economics als well as gender research. Anna Żylicz Anna Żylicz is a Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, where she graduated in economics and mathematics. She works as a doctoral fellow and Research Assistant at the university s Centre of Migration Research (CMR). Her research interests include topics in the supply-side economics of migration, especially microeconomic econometric modelling. Additional interests include demography and game theory.

Index A Assimilation, 52, 98, 125, 131 135, 139 143 Asylum, 74 76 B Brain Drain, 32, 36, 95, 231, 245, 246, 255, 323, 324 Brain Waste, 36, 54, 246, 255, 280 Business Cycle, 219, 220, 239, 240, 244, 245, 250 C Citizenship, 82, 115, 118, 124, 126, 165, 166, 255, 257, 260, 276, 294 Complementarity, 7, 8, 48, 55, 57, 289 D Data Administrative, 150, 151, 158, 258, 288, 290 Census, 21, 221, 242, 258, 273, 276, 290 Survey, 19, 21, 150, 151, 242, 272, 297, 327 Diversity, 73, 78, 321 Downgrading (of Qualifications), 21, 36 E Economic/Financial Crisis, 3, 6, 38 41, 50 52, 67, 71, 78, 104, 159, 208, 209, 240, 250, 257, 298, 300, 312, 328 Education Level, 20, 142, 268 Employment Effects, 50, 55 Rate, 20, 96, 118, 131, 142, 152, 168, 169, 177, 273 Entrepreneurship, 41, 190, 211, 250 Ethnic Minorities, 256, 294, 289 European Commission, 5, 9, 10, 17 22, 31, 36, 73, 79, 83, 92, 94, 97, 100, 101, 206, 258 264, 269, 273, 274, 279 282 F Family Reunification, 321, 328 Free Mobility of Workers, 48, 50, 114 G GDP, 18, 19, 31, 36, 47, 50, 58 60, 63, 66, 68, 177, 208, 238, 256, 289, 296, 306, 307, 311, 312, 327, 329, 330 Gender, 75, 89, 92, 93, 116, 120, 140, 153, 155, 163, 172, 189, 290 Guest Workers, 78, 118, 186 H Human Capital, 6, 8, 9, 21, 36, 37, 40, 41, 55, 62, 135 139, 153 155, 159, 187, 191, 238, 246, 255, 257, 266, 273, 282, 329 I Identity, 81, 89 92 Integration, 41, 57, 58, 72 78, 81, 84, 89 93, 101, 125, 139, 155, 240, 293, 329 J Job Satisfaction, 192 196 L Labor Demand, 55, 56, 156 159, 243 Shortages, 32, 33, 73, 95, 243 250, 256, 287, 289, 300 Supply, 37, 47 60, 64 67, 145, 156, 157, 286, 289, 290, 324, 326 Labor Market Effects, 47, 60, 66, 230, 237 Equilibrium, 220, 238 Outcomes, 41, 112, 124, 126, 128, 153, 154, 158, 202, 257, 273, 282, 294 Language, 8, 16, 22, 36, 39, 74, 81, 88, 96, 125, 141, 167, 210, 211, 264, 273, 279, 292, 295, 299, 307 Life Satisfaction, 193, 196 199 M Migrant Characteristics, 230, 258 Networks, 5, 228 Selectivity Index, 233, 237 Migration Circular, 9, 41, 186, 221, 321 Decision, 320, 321, 327 Determinants of, 19, 255, 257 Flows, 6, 9, 13, 17, 19, 22, 26, 40, 41, 48, 50, 51, 54, 66, 68, 102, 112, 117, 133, 166, 186, 343

344 Index 211, 212, 240, 242, 257 266, 287, 289, 290 Illegal, 9, 74, 78 Impact of, 1, 49, 54, 58, 60, 62, 66, 109, 156, 217, 240, 248, 257, 324 Intentions, 9, 22, 112, 167, 257, 259, 294 Networks, 237, 297, 320, 321 Permanent, 257, 269, 323, 326 Policy, 5, 22, 242 Reasons for, 22 Return, 10, 40, 67, 68, 159, 165, 186, 187, 226, 251, 257, 282 284, 290, 292, 295, 298, 300, 309, 310, 320, 327 329 Scenarios, 50, 53, 243, 248 Seasonal, 19, 256 Stocks, 51, 249 Temporary, 259, 321, 322, 327 Mobility Labor, 5, 47 49, 53, 68, 94, 260, 331 Occupational, 279, 280 N Nationality, 82, 96, 114 119, 124, 126, 134, 142, 149, 150, 155, 185, 210 P Participation Rate, 20, 21, 54, 63, 117, 266, 287, 289 Posted Workers, 259, 262 267, 295 Public Perceptions, 41, 71 78, 83 86, 95 101, 104 Pull Factors, 39, 250, 306, 307 Push Factors, 202, 236, 239, 306 R Remittances, 36, 37, 40, 73, 256, 257, 289, 295 297, 306, 307, 311, 312, 322 331 S Security, 14, 33, 74, 75, 78 81, 88, 89, 98, 102, 103, 118, 142, 143, 150, 158, 195, 196, 260, 265, 287, 289, 300 Self-employment, 20, 27, 124, 125, 188 192, 281 Simulations, 48, 50, 53, 54, 56, 58, 61, 63 67, 151, 157, 159, 186 Social Disorganization Theory, 77 T Temporary Workers, 16, 186, 255, 282, 292 Transition, 32, 89, 91, 221, 226, 242, 243, 248, 249, 284, 306 309, 313, 327, 330 Transitional Arrangements, 4, 5, 14, 22, 26, 39, 48, 54 U Unemployment, 6, 8, 18 23, 26, 27, 30 33, 38, 42, 44, 47 51, 55, 58 70, 79, 94, 95, 99, 117, 123, 131, 136, 142, 146, 147, 152, 156 161, 167, 168, 186, 192, 193, 199 214, 219, 238 243, 250, 252, 256, 261, 264, 266, 273, 284 290, 298, 301, 306, 307, 323 "Fear" of, 30, 203, 206 208 Rate, 19, 26, 30, 33, 47, 55, 60 63, 66 68, 117, 152, 167, 206, 238, 243, 264, 266, 273, 287 290, 306 V Vacancy Rate, 26, 28, 247, 287, 289 W Wage Curve, 49, 55, 290 Equation, 174 176, 248 Rigidities, 49, 55 Work Permit, 113, 114, 260, 289 Working Hours, 123, 169, 170, 177, 178, 188, 191, 193, 201, 286