scholarly journals Labour Market Disadvantages Faced by Migrant Workers from Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia in Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Privara ◽  
Eva Rievajová ◽  
Mustafa Murat Yüceşahin
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Population Survey ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
New Member States ◽  
Annual Population ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes

Britain saw, between 2004 and 2014, a large number of movers arriving from the new member states of the European Union in Eastern Europe. Polish movers, being the largest national group, received much attention from academia, media and the wider public. Nevertheless, the movers from smaller nations, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, the A3 countries, have been overlooked. This article explores the labour market outcomes in relation to qualifications for migrant workers from these three countries in Britain. Our analysis is based on the 2012 Annual Population Survey data. Findings show that there were significant differences indicating possible disadvantages and discrimination faced by these migrant workers. Over-qualification was relatively high among the movers from the three selected countries.

scholarly journals Poziom ubóstwa w krajach nowo przyjętych do Unii Europejskiej

2004 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Aneta Stańko
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Poverty Level ◽  
New Members ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Poverty Threshold

The paper presents chosen indicators of poverty and labour market in new member countries of the European Union. The new member countries could participate in the open coordination of policy against poverty and social exclusion from the first day of membership. The poverty level in new member countries was almost on the same level as in the "old" members but the poverty threshold was much lower in new members. The biggest sphere of poverty was in Estonia and Lithuania (over 16%), the lowest-in the Czech Republic and Hungary (about 10%). The main cause of poverty in all of the member countries was unemployment, especially persistent.

scholarly journals Migrant Workers in Beijing: How Hometown Ties Affect Economic Outcomes

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 789-808
Author(s):  
Menghan Zhao ◽  
Yongai Jin
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Internal Migration ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Detrimental Effect ◽  
Potential Bias ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Migrant Networks ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Impact

Migrant networks have long been regarded as helpful for facilitating migration and assimilation. However, research examining the influence of migrant networks on labour market outcomes for migrants has provided mixed results. This article investigates the impact of hometown ties on migrants’ labour market outcomes in the context of Chinese internal migration, by utilizing data from migrants in Beijing to perform statistical analyses of income and informal employment (i.e. employment without legal documents). After adjusting for the potential bias that results from the workers’ self-selectivity into the use of hometown ties in finding jobs, the analyses show that the hourly income of migrants is lower if they depend on hometown ties to find jobs. Also, migrants who rely on hometown ties for jobs are more likely to be informally employed, which has a detrimental effect on their overall welfare.

scholarly journals The mobility of workers living at work in Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonella Ceccagno ◽  
Devi Sacchetto
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Chinese Migrants

Scholars, mainly focusing on Asia, consistently describe the im/mobility of workers living at work as orchestrated from above. This article bring to the forefront forms of workers’ mobility that take place outside of the established and often policed tracks. Focusing on Europe, the article shows that the mobility of workers is the outcome of the interplay of both employers’ strategies and workers’ agency. Based on extensive fieldwork among migrant workers in Europe – Chinese migrants in the Italian fashion industry, and Eastern European migrant workers at the Foxconn electronics plants in the Czech Republic – the article offers a new approach. Instead of focusing on the single workplace at a certain point in time, it adopts a perspective that considers the multiplicity of accommodations at work for workers across Europe along the time dimension. By extending the study of the dormitory regime to the European Union, the article highlights the way the growing frequency of factories cum dormitories to a certain extent empowers the workers as their horizons extend to other sites within Europe and are not limited to a single firm.

scholarly journals Analysis of labour market in the Czech Republic with respect to unemployment considering other countries of EU

2009 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
pp. 189-200
Author(s):  
Milan Palát
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
International Comparison ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Czech Republic

The paper deals with the analysis of labour market in the Czech Republic with respect to unemployment considering other countries of EU and existing economic development. Evaluation has been carried out of the specific development of labour market, employment and unemployment in the Czech Republic in the period 1993–2008, incl. possible causes and trends of the development and international comparison of selected characteristics of labour market using adequate quantitative methods. Analysis of the Czech labour market during the period of its existence includes the eva­lua­tion of supply and demand in the labour market. The most important causes were monitored of changes in the supply in the labour market affected by the demographic development and social environment and substantial causes of changes in the demand in the labour market, which were affected by the performance of the given economics, by the growth of labour productivity and the number of available jobs. This is followed by assessing the development of unemployment in the Czech Republic and European Union. Substantial aspects were identified of the development of labour market and unemployment in the Czech Republic and EU as a whole and trends of the future development were indicated in the studied area. The international comparison of selected characteristics of labour market in the member countries of EU carried out by means of quantitative methods allowed to assess high differences among unemployment rates in this community and created another information source regarding the position of the Czech Republic in the European Union during the selected reference period. Significant differences in unemployment between all member countries point out to marked structural or institutional differences in labour markets in particular countries. Only a negligible percentage out of the total economically active population in the European Union migrates over the border of its member countries. This situation only augments a durable long-term unemployment growth in particular countries. Beside the insufficient labour force movement throughout Europe a next important problem in structural unemployment presents e.g., the incongruity in qualifications between supply and demand on the labour market. The current financial and economic crisis has cut at all previous positive unemployment development during a few months.

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