Naslov
Migration Trends and Labor Market Participation of Croats in Germany

Autori
Burkert, Carola ; Hornstein Tomić, Caroline

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Skup
Migracije i identitet: kultura, ekonomija, država(2)

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska; online, 19.05.2021

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Podatak o recenziji nije dostupan

Ključne riječi
Migration, labor market participation, Croats, Germany

Sažetak
A participant in inner European free labor mobility since accession to the European Union in July 2013, Croatia shows accelerated negative net migration, a trend already ongoing for years. A country of emigration Croatia has seen return and immigration from its diaspora all along, keeping net migration mostly in balance. Circulation as a typical pattern of inner EU “liquid” (Engbergsen, 2018) labor mobility has been practiced by Croats with regards to Germany as main destination of Croat labor migrants since the early 1960s. How labor migration of Croats within the EU will develop in the future is difficult to predict, and to statistically track down. We however try to address interactions / interrelations between sending and receiving countries by synchronically looking into labor market participation data: while the German labor market developed positively, profiting from free labor mobility within the European Union, the Croatian labor market increasingly suffers severe labor shortage in specific sectors. Traditionally, the labor market integration of Croats in Germany has been a success story, if compared to other immigrant groups ; compared to Germans, though, Croats are still overrepresented in assisting positions and often less paid jobs, mostly due to language barriers. How is the labor market participation of Croats in sectors such as health and social care, hospitality, and service industry? How are respective labor market date in Croatia?

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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