The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe
This paper analyses the role of welfare systems in shaping migration patterns in Central and Eastern Europe over the transition process and after EU accession. It argues that states have played a crucial role in affecting migration by creating and widening opportunities for potential and actual migr...
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| description | This paper analyses the role of welfare systems in shaping migration patterns in Central and Eastern Europe over the transition process and after EU accession. It argues that states have played a crucial role in affecting migration by creating and widening opportunities for potential and actual migrants through welfare system policies. This explains why CEE countries where social spending figures have been lower, unemployment benefit schemes less extensive, and where labour market mismatches remained unaddressed, experienced greater out-migration. Investigating the role of sending states’ institutions in a comparative framework and over time, this paper analyses migration as part of broader social and economic processes and contributes to our understanding of how sending countries’ institutional factors affect out-migration. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:144a9288-e9f3-4669-a52a-ebb51a1c64ee2022-03-26T10:18:53ZThe role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern EuropeWorking paperhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_8042uuid:144a9288-e9f3-4669-a52a-ebb51a1c64eeEconomicsWelfare state reform and changeMigrationEnglishOxford University Research Archive - ValetInternational Migration Institute2011Kureková, LThis paper analyses the role of welfare systems in shaping migration patterns in Central and Eastern Europe over the transition process and after EU accession. It argues that states have played a crucial role in affecting migration by creating and widening opportunities for potential and actual migrants through welfare system policies. This explains why CEE countries where social spending figures have been lower, unemployment benefit schemes less extensive, and where labour market mismatches remained unaddressed, experienced greater out-migration. Investigating the role of sending states’ institutions in a comparative framework and over time, this paper analyses migration as part of broader social and economic processes and contributes to our understanding of how sending countries’ institutional factors affect out-migration. |
| spellingShingle | Economics Welfare state reform and change Migration Kureková, L The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe |
| title | The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_full | The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_fullStr | The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_short | The role of welfare systems in affecting out-migration: the case of Central and Eastern Europe |
| title_sort | role of welfare systems in affecting out migration the case of central and eastern europe |
| topic | Economics Welfare state reform and change Migration |
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