Immigration Policy and the Labor Market: The German Experience and Lessons for Europe

by René Fahr, Klaus F. Zimmermann, Holger Bonin

Book Overview

German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in the face of high unemployment and a shrinking labor force due to demographic change. Despite the implementation of Germany's first immigration act and several European initiatives towards legal harmonization at the EU level, an actively controlling immigration policy, which would be needed to master the challenges ahead, is not...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642087973
• ISBN13: 9783642087974
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"