Date: 2010-04
Type: Technical Report
Labour Markets Performance and Migration Flows in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Determinants and Effects
Technical Report, European Economy Occasional Papers 60, April 2010 (in 3 volumes)
FARGUES, Philippe, MARTIN, Iván (editor/s), FARGUES, Philippe, MARTIN, Iván, Labour Markets Performance and Migration Flows in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Determinants and Effects, European Economy Occasional Papers 60, April 2010 (in 3 volumes) - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/15254
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The main objective of this Study is to analyze the key labour market determinants of migration flows from selected Arab Mediterranean Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and the Occupied Palestinian Territories) and the impact of outward migration on the labour markets of Arab Mediterranean Countries (AMCs). This has been done mainly on the basis of the evidence and analysis produced by the two Thematic Background Papers and the 8 National Background Papers commissioned for the Study. In turn, the National Background Papers are deliberately based on national statistical data sources: this makes comparability less straightforward, but has the merit of using original data available at the local level, where they are collected and generated.
Table of Contents:
Volume I: Final Report and Thematic Background Papers [in English]; Volume II: National Background Papers Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisa)[in French]; Volume III: National Background Papers Mashreq: Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria) [in English]
Additional information:
The European University Institute (RSCAS) was selected by the
European Commission to carry out a Study on “Labour Markets
Performance and Migration Flows in Arab Mediterranean Countries:
Determinants and Effects” (Nº ECFIN/D/2008/036).
Scientific Director: Philippe Fargues
Project Coordinator: Iván Martín
Objectives
The objectives of the Study are two-fold:
to analyze the key labour market determinants of migration flows from selected Arab
Mediterranean Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and the
Occupied Palestinian Territories), with a particular emphasis on demographic pressures, wage
differentials and relative income disparities with the EU, employment policies, labour market
flexibility and unemployment rates; this analysis includes the impact of migration on the
labour markets of Arab Mediterranean Country (AMCs) labour markets;
to propose a series of specific recommendations to improve the design of the EU’s migration
policies towards AMCs and policy options available to them for the management of
mismatches between labour supply and demand.
Team of Experts for the Study
Philippe Fargues, Migration Programme Director, RSCAS-EUI
Iván Martín, Project Coordinator, RSCAS-EUI, and ICEI, Spain
Samir Aita, General Manager, A Concept Mafhoum
Rafik Bouklia, Université d’Oran, Algeria.
Jad Chaaban, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Brahim El-Mouaatamid, Research Assistant, CARIM Project, EUI-RSCAS
Thoraya El-Rayyes, ILO Arab States Regional Office, Jordan
Tamirace Fakhoury, Research Assistant, CARIM Project, EUI-RSCAS
Larabi Jaidi, Université Mohammed V de Rabat, Morocco
Nathalie Jouant, Research Assistant, CARIM Project, EUI-RSCAS
Mustafa Khawaja, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestine
Azzam Mahjoub, Université de Tunis, Tunisia
Francesca Marchetta, University of Florence
Mohammad Omari, Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Palestine
Ibrahim Saif, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Fatiha Talahite, CNRS, Université Paris 13 Nord, France
Alessandra Venturini, Executive Director, CARIM, EUI, and Universitá de Torino
Jackline Wahba, University of Southampton, UK
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/15254
Full-text via DOI: 10.2765/26101
ISBN: 978-92-79-15073-9
ISSN: 1725-3195
Series/Number: European Economy Occasional Papers 60, April 2010 (in 3 volumes)
Publisher: European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
Sponsorship and Funder information:
European Commission, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
© European Union, 2010
