Using qualitative information, this paper studies the labour experiences of a group of skilled Spanish migrants in Mexico City. The paper identifies two types of migrants amongst the interviewed Spaniards: TNCs transferees and “migrants in the middle” (“those who are neither low-skilled migrants nor high-skilled migrants”; Conradson and Latham, 2005a). This somehow challenges assumptions about ...

European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low-skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of flexible high-skilled workers and the aging process has created the image of an immobile labour force...

CELMR is the Centre for European Labour Market Research and is made up of 12 faculty from the Economics Department at the University of Aberdeen plus associate members from across the world. The Centre prides itself on high quality, policy relevant research examining a whole range of labour market issues based primarily around four themes: • Education, Skills and Labour Mobility • Inequality in...

The EU enlargement in the beginning of twenty-first century can be seen by demographers as a huge natural experiment regarding migrations. The book ‘‘Mobility in transition. Migration patterns after EU enlargement’’ describes some aspects of massive post-accession migration, but proposes also a reflection on how understanding of migration processes inside the EU has been changing based on the o...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility likely act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face asymmetric shocks Euroland. To end, we estimate elasticity migration with respect changes unemployment and income on basis regional panel data provided by Eurostat, statistical office European Union. Regression results are for Western Germany, France, Italy. It shown that...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional panel data provided by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. Regression results are p...