Deepening our understanding of opportunities and challenges related to demographic change, migration and mobility.
Topic / Tool
Legal migration and integration
Legal migration deals with international mobility of people and their stay, while integration focuses on how people become part of the destination countries’ societies.
Legal migration covers international mobility towards the EU, such as labour migration, family reunification, student migration, as well as the conditions under which regular stay is allowed.
Integration of third country nationals in EU is a two-way process, in which both immigrants and EU citizens accommodate mutually on various aspects of societal life, from education to electoral outcomes.
Subtopics:
Residence permits and visas
Residential segregation of migrants in cities
Integration of migrants in cities, educational systems and EU labour markets
Labour market shortages, skills matching, over-qualification
Fiscal impacts of migration
Free movements across the EU and EU citizenship
Attractive factors determining mobility towards the EU
Public opinions and voting behaviour
Legal migration deals with international mobility of people and their stay, while integration focuses on how people become part of the destination countries’ societies.
Analysis of immigrants’ integration into the labour market
Study of migrants’ mobility and residence into EU member states
Analysis of public opinion on immigration through a variety of data sources, and their connections with other political attitudes;
Studying local aspects of migration using a new dataset. Through the use of data, authorities can be better placed to see, understand and respond to the challenges they…
The report analyzes the drivers of different forms of migration. Specifically, using Eurostat data on new residence permits issued by EU countries to Third-Country Nationals, we are…
The aim of this report is to provide insights on the implications that structural changes in the labour market related to the Digital Transformation (DT) could have on the integration of EU mobile citizens and third…
Drawing policy implications from the analysis of the evolution of European post-war migrations. It also looks at structural factors that shape migration in both origin and destination countries and assesses…
Embedded in the “dual labour market” theory which focuses on the role of structural characteristics of national labour markets in determining the demand for foreign labour force, this report intends…
This paper provides an in-depth description of public opinion about immigrants’ integration in European countries, as captured in the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on this topic. It highlights a near consensus…
The report explores opinions and voting in relation to migration and trust in the EU with a territorial perspective. The main research objectives are to understand whether Euroscepticism and anti-immigration stances are…
Using five waves of the European Labour Force Survey for the period 2011-2016 we analyse the differential incidence of overeducation between natives and migrants in twenty-four EU Member…
The aim of this report is to describe the performance of tertiary educated non-EU born migrants and mobile EU citizens in EU labour markets by looking at two different measures of performance…
This report provides an analysis of the fiscal impact of migration in the European Union in the past and the future. It highlights that currently natives generally show a higher net fiscal contribution…
Member States affected by the COVID-19 pandemic have often resorted to shelter in place orders to stop the virus from spreading widely. These orders have affected many…
This report provides a quantitative overview of migration in rural areas for the entire EU. It includes a description of socio demographic characteristics and main indicators of integration of migrants living…
Key Messages According to our estimates, on average approximately 31% of employed working-age individuals are key workers in the EU. This share is highly heterogeneous across Member…
This report analyses the labour conditions of migrant workers in the EU in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. By looking at the prevalence of temporary contracts, the position in the income distribution and the likelihood that jobs can…
This KCMD study uses data from the EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) to analyse how intersecting social statuses shape labour market participation. The report focuses…
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