Martin Kahanec

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Associate Professor
Department of Public Policy
Center for European Union Research (CEUR)
Political Economy Research Group (PERG)
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Qualifications: 
PhD. Tilburg University, the Netherlands
M.A. Central European University, Hungary
Mgr. and Bc. Comenius University, Slovakia
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Associate Professor at the Central European University in Budapest. Senior Research Associate, Deputy Program Director "Migration", the leader of the research sub-area EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets and former Deputy Director of Research (2009) at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.

Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions (the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, etc.). Member of several professional associations (AEA, ESPE, EALE, EEA) and a founding member and Fellow of the Slovak Economic Association.

His main research interests are Labour and Population Economics, Ethnicity, Migration, and reforms in Central Eastern European labor markets.

He has published in international refereed journals, contributed a number of chapters in edited volumes including the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OxfordUP), and he has edited scientific volumes and journal special issues. He is the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of European Labor Studies.

Martin Kahanec earned his Ph.D. in Economics in 2006 from the Center for Economic Research (CentER), Tilburg University, the Netherlands, with his thesis "Social Interaction and the Labor Market: Essays on Earnings Inequality, Labor Substitutability, and Segregation." During his doctoral studies, he spent several months as a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) of Université Toulouse 1 Sciences Sociales in France and the European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) of Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Prior to his doctoral studies, in 2000 he earned his Master's degree from the Central European University in Budapest as well as from the Faculty of management, Comenius University, in Bratislava, where he also earned his Bachelor's degree in 1998.

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Department of Public Policy
Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations
Center for European Union Research (CEUR)
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Labor and Population Economics
migration
Ethnicity
EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets
Reforms in Central Eastern European Labor Markets
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Economics
Human Rights Studies
Political Science
Public Policy
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Publications

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Migration, the Welfare State, and European Labor Markets (Journal Special Issue) In International Journal of Manpower, Edited by Alan Barrett, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann. Emerald Publishing, 2011.
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Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets: Challenges and Solutions. Edward Elgar, 2011.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration. Berlin et al.: Springer Verlag, 2010.
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Migration, Ethnicity and Identity in Host Labor Markets (Journal Special Issue) In International Journal of Manpower, Edited by Amelie F. Constant, Martin Kahanec and Klaus F. Zimmermann. 1+2 ed. Vol. 30. Emerald Publishing, 2009.
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Book Chapter
Kahanec, Martin. "Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union." In International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, edited by Klaus F. Zimmermann and Amelie Constant. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2013.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Lucia Kurekova. "European Union Expansion and Migration, Vol. 1." In The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, edited by Immanuel Ness. Hoboken: Wiley - Blackwell Publishing, 2013.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "A policy agenda for diversity and minority integration." In Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets: Challenges and Solutions. MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
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Kahanec, Martin. "The Practice of Minority Integration in the European Union: What works." In Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets: Challenges and Solutions. MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
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Kahanec, Martin, Anzelika Zaiceva, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "An expert stakeholder’s view on the European integration challenges." In Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets: Challenges and Solutions. MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
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Kahanec, Martin, Anzelika Zaiceva, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An overview." In Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets: Challenges and Solutions. MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011.
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Kahanec, Martin. "Ethnic Competition and Specialization." In Migration and Culture. Vol. 10. Frontiers of Economics and Globalization 10. Emerald Publishing, 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Mutlu Yuksel. "Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia." In Migration and Culture. Vol. 10. Frontiers of Economics and Globalization 10. Emerald Publishing, 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin, Anzelika Zaiceva, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement." In Eu Labor Markets after Post-enlargement Migration. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Kluas F. Zimmermann. "Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure." In Developing the Research Infrastructure for the Social and Behavioral Sciences in Germany and Beyond. Progress since 2001, Current Situation, and Future Demands. Opladen: Budrich UniPress, 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe." In High-Skilled Immigration in a Globalized Labor Market. Washington, DC: AEI, 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?" In Five years of an enlarged EU - a positive-sum game., 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality." In Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Conference Paper
Kahanec, Martin, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "The Impact of Post-Enlargement Migration on the Visegrad Countries." Warsaw: Warsaw University, 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin. "Globalizácia, migrácia a trh práce." In Labour economics and its implication for Slovakia. Bratislava: IZ, 2008.
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Kahanec, Martin. "Sustainable Development in Central Europe." In CEP Budapest 1998. Budapest, 1998.
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Journal Article
Giulietti, Corrado, Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU." International Journal of Manpower 34, no. 1/2 (2013).
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Kahanec, Martin, and Renata Kralikova. "Higher Education Policy and Migration: The Role of International Student Mobility." CESifo DICE Report 9, no. 4 (2012): 20-27.
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Kahanec, Martin, Anna Myung-Hee Kim, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State." International Journal of Manpower (2012).
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Constant, Amelie F., Martin Kahanec, Ulf Rinne, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed." International Journal of Manpower (2011).
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Constant, Amelie F., Martin Kahanec, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide." Economics of Transition (2011).
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Constant, Amelie F., Martin Kahanec, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide." Eastern European Economics 49, no. 6 (2011): 103-115.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Mariapia Mendola. "Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain." Research in Labor Economics 29 (2009): 28.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Anzelika Zaiceva. "Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison." International Journal of Manpower 30 (2009): 18.
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Constant, Amelie F., Martin Kahanec, and Klaus F. Zimmermann. "Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity." International Journal Of Manpower 30 (2009): 9.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Mehmet s. Tosun. "Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspiration." International Migration Review 43 (2009): 28.
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Study
Kahanec, Martin. The Decade of Roma Inclusion: A Unifying Framework of Progress Measurement and Options for Data Collection. Bonn: IZA, 2009.
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Zimmermann, Klaus F., Martin Kahanec, Amelie Constant, Don DeVoretz, Anzelika Zaiceva, and Liliya Gataullina. Study on the Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities. Bonn: IZA, 2008.
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Summary
Kahanec, Martin. Incomplete Contracts and the Theory of the Firm. Tilburg: NAKE, 2003.
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Working Paper
Kahanec, Martin, and Michael C. Shields. The Working Hours of German Migrants: Temporary Versus Permanent., 2010.
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Kahanec, Martin, and Michael C. Shields. Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality., 2008.
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Kahanec, Martin. The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market., 2006.
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Kahanec, Martin. Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More., 2006.
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Kahanec, Martin. Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality., 2005.
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Kahanec, Martin. Social Interaction and the Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More., 2004.
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