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Challenged by migration: Europe's options

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  • Constant, Amelie F.

    (Princeton University)

  • Zimmermann, Klaus F.

    (UNU-MERIT, and Maastricht University)

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This paper examines the migration and labour mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labour mobility have not been at the origin of the perceived cultural shift. The EU in its current form and ambition could perfectly survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the mobility issue by not preserving free internal labour mobility and not establishing a joint external migration policy.

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  • Constant, Amelie F. & Zimmermann, Klaus F., 2017. "Challenged by migration: Europe's options," MERIT Working Papers 2017-018, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
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    1. Challenged by Migration: Europe’s Options
      by maximorossi in NEP-LTV blog on 2017-06-02 17:24:10
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      by maximorossi in NEP-LTV blog on 2018-04-09 18:41:10

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    Keywords

    labour mobility; migration; European Union; refugees;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • D01 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
    • D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis
    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • F16 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Labor Market Interactions
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • F66 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Labor

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