Europe

Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) delivered an invited speech “Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU” at the workshop “Immigration in OECD countries: fiscal impact and public opinion” organized by the OECD in cooperation with CEPII on October 14, 2011, in Paris. In his speech he argued that welfare magnet hypothesis is an unfounded myth when it comes to the question whether an increase in the share of unemployment benefits spending in GDP in a given country leads to additional inflows of immigrants.

Martin Kahanec (Public Policy) delivered an invited speech “Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets” at the workshop “Economy and Society Development in China and the World” co-organized by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Minzu University of China, and Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) in Beijing on October 13–14, 2011. The primary themes of the presentation were ethnic diversity in Europe, ethnic segmentation and inequality, and integration of ethnic groups and immigrants in European labor markets.