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Romania and the New Economy of Migration: Costs, Decision, Networks, Development. SISEC Discussion Paper Vol. 7, No. 2, November 2008

Silasi, Grigore and Simina, Ovidiu Laurian. (2008) Romania and the New Economy of Migration: Costs, Decision, Networks, Development. SISEC Discussion Paper Vol. 7, No. 2, November 2008. [Discussion Paper]

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    Abstract

    In some earlier studies, as a response to the media debate during the hot summer of 2006, regarding Romania’s emigration as following the accession to the EU, we were saying that the fear of mass migration from Romania was not justified. Romania is not only a gateway for the East-West international migration (like Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece for the South-North direction), but a labour market in need of workers. Nowadays, almost two years after January 1st, 2007, the facts prove our prediction as being true. While a big part of the labour force is already migrated, mostly to the SE Europe (some 2.5m workers are cited to be abroad, with both legal and illegal/irregular status, even before the EU enlargement), the Romanian companies could not find local workers to use them in order to benefit from the money inflow targeting Romania in the light of its new membership to the European Union (foreign investments and European post accession funds). Instead of increasing the salaries, the local employers rather prefer to ‘import’ workers from poorer countries (Moldavians, Chinese, Ukrainians and others who still accept a lower wage as compared to the medium wage in Romania, but bigger enough as compared to those from their countries of origin).

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    Item Type: Discussion Paper
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Labour migration; labour market distortions' South-Eastern Europe Syndrome; network effect; decision making. motivation, need for esteem
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > Third Pillar/JHA/PJCC/AFSJ > immigration policy
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market > labour/labor
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > Third Pillar/JHA/PJCC/AFSJ > free movement/border control
    Countries > Romania
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > Third Pillar/JHA/PJCC/AFSJ > general
    EU policies and themes > External relations > EU-Central and Eastern Europe
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market > employment/unemployment
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > West University of Timisoara, School of High Comparative European Studies (Timisoara) > (SISEC) Discussion Papers
    Depositing User: Ovidiu SIMINA
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 01 Jun 2010
    Page Range: p. 15
    Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 18:30
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/14049

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