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Did Post-enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia

In: Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession

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  • Martin Kahanec

    (Central European University (CEU)
    Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
    CELSI and NHF EU)

  • Lucia Mýtna Kureková

    (CELSI
    CEU
    SGI)

Abstract

Although membership in the European Union (EU) looked like a distant dream to many Slovaks in the 1990s, a remarkable political and economic makeover around the turn of the millennium enabled Slovakia to join the EU in 2004, along with seven other Central-Eastern European countries. EU accession caught Slovakia on a trajectory of population aging and demographic decline. The fertility rate was and still stands significantly below the replacement rate, and the old-age dependency ratio is projected to rise to over 60 % by 2060, marking one of the highest figures among the EU member states (Eurostat 2012). Immigration remains low, standing at around 1 % of the population in 2011, and cannot be expected to sufficiently compensate for these demographic trends in the foreseeable future. The labor market still has not fully absorbed the structural imbalances originating from the pre-1989 command economy.

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  • Martin Kahanec & Lucia Mýtna Kureková, 2016. "Did Post-enlargement Labor Mobility Help the EU to Adjust During the Great Recession? The Case of Slovakia," Springer Books, in: Martin Kahanec & Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession, pages 189-218, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-662-45320-9_9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-45320-9_9
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

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