Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128264 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CASE Network Studies & Analyses No. 464
Publisher: 
Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw
Abstract: 
Ukraine is a migration-intensive country, with an estimated 1.5-2 million labour migrants (about 5% of the working-age population). Slightly over a half of these migrants travel for work to the EU. This study discusses the impact of this large pool of migrants on both the sending and receiving countries. It also assesses how liberalisation of the EU visa regime, something that the EU is currently negotiating with Ukraine, will affect the stream of Ukrainian labour migrants to EU countries. Our study suggests that the number of tourists will increase substantially, whereas the increase in the number of labour migrants is unlikely to be very large. We also suggest that the number of legal migrants is likely to increase, but at the same time the number of illegal migrants will decline because currently only a third of migrants from Ukraine have both residence and work permits in the EU, while about a quarter of them stay there illegally.
Subjects: 
Labour Economics
Labour Markets
Labour Mobility
Ukraine
JEL: 
D78
F22
F24
I25
J01
J15
J40
J61
J83
ISBN: 
978-83-7178-593-1
Document Type: 
Research Report

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