Do Legal Barriers Really Protect the Labor Markets? Empirical Evidence of Polish Migrants after 2004.

• Autorzy: Michał Schwabe
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the role of intervening obstacles, understood as legal and policy barriers blocking immigrant access to foreign labor markets, in the international migration process. To do so, we use Polish international temporary emigrants in the years 2000-2012, which spans both the pre-accession period, when Polish citizens were not entitled to access other EU labor markets, as well as the post - accession period, when certain countries gradually removed intervening obstacles according to the transnational agreements. The findings of this paper undermine the significance of intervening obstacles on Polish migration to EU countries. Instead, the primary driver of Polish migrants was the EU-15 business cycle - and not the opening of EU labor markets. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Labour market; Law; Economic migration; Migration policy

PL

Rynek pracy; Prawo; Migracja zarobkowa; Polityka migracyjna

• Czasopismo: International Journal of Management and Economics
• Rocznik: 2014
• Numer: nr 43
• Strony: 114--127

Twórcy

autor

Michał Schwabe

• Institute of International Economics, Warsaw School of Economics

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