International Journal of Manpower: Volume 36 Issue 4

Migration, human capital and social capital: lessons for the EU neighbouring countries

Michael Beenstock, Raul Ramos, Jordi Suriñach

The European Union (EU) and its European neighbourhood are mutually dependent. In the next decades, the EU will need to import foreign labour in response to different challenges…

On the potential interaction between labour market institutions and immigration policies

Claudia Cigagna, Giovanni Sulis

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum…

The role of urbanisation on international migrations: a case study of EU and ENP countries

Vicente Royuela

The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of the agglomeration economies as pull factor of international migration between the European Union and the countries involved…

Immigration to the European Union from its neighborhoods: Testing welfare-chasing and related hypotheses by spatial gravity

Michael Beenstock, Daniel Felsenstein, Ziv Rubin

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of immigration from European Neighborhood (EN) and new member states to the EU core countries over the period 2000-2010…

Immigrants from ENP countries and employment dismissal in Spain

Elisabet Motellón, Enrique López-Bazo

The purpose of this paper is to check if the rate of employment dismissal in the Spanish labour market is higher for immigrants from countries of the European Neighbourhood Policy…

Educational mismatches in the EU: immigrants vs natives

Sandra Nieto, Alessia Matano, Raúl Ramos

The purpose of this paper is to analyse and explain the factors contributing to the observed differences in skill mismatches (vertical and horizontal) between natives and…

The role of foreign scientific foundations’ role in the cross-border mobility of Russian academics

Alexander Chepurenko

– The purpose of this paper is to explain the current role of foreign foundations in the cross-border mobility of Russian elite scientists.

Length of stay in the host country and educational achievement of immigrant students: The Italian case

Adriana Di Liberto

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the gap in reading literacy of young immigrant children in Italy and examine if this gap is significantly influenced by pupils’ length of…

Proximity, trade and ethnic networks of migrants: case study for France and Egypt

Andrés Artal-Tur, Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim, Nicolas Peridy

The purpose of this paper is to study how proximity affects the trade-migration link. By focusing on two case studies, France and Egypt, the authors explore if migrants promote…