"Use it or lose it!" How do migration, human capital and the labour market interact in the Western Balkans?

Report

Original Resource

Authors	Isilda Mara, Michael Landesmann
Description	The six Western Balkan countries (hereafter ‘the WB6’) are quite well-researched in terms of migration, human capital and labour market issues. However, most studies have focused on one of these three individual topics rather than addressing them together, thus missing the skills-related interactions between these various fields. Aiming to understand the impact of migration on the skills pool and skill utilisation in the WB6, and the implications it may have for their future economic development, the ETF’s project ‘Migration and human capital in the Western Balkans’ brought together the three areas under an integrated analytical framework. This report is the last of a series of country studies (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo1, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia) and technical papers undertaken within the project during 2020–21. It is a regional assessment of the triangular relationships amongst migration, labour market dynamics and human capital development over the past decade, with cross-country comparisons.
Year	2022
Keywords	migration labour market human capital

Taxonomy Associations

Migration processes

Migration drivers
Migration forms

Migration consequences (for migrants, sending and receiving countries)

Socio-economic consequences
- Migrant human capital and skills
Transversal consequences
- Migrant incorporation / integration

Migration governance

Governance actors
- Employers, labour and trade unions

Methods

Qualitative research
- Other

Geographies

Scope
UN Countries

Experts

Isilda Mara

https://wiiw.ac.at/isilda-mara-s-739.html

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Bringing migration research under one roof.

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This project was made possible thanks to funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement Ares(2017) 5627812-77012.

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