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Marinel Mandres* Introduction: Context and Relevance The post-1990 era involves complex, diverse, and dynamic migration flows that are created by the realities of globalization, liberalization, and flexibility.  Contemporary migration has considerably reduced the dichotomous distinctions between ‘migration’ and ‘mobility’ as well as between ‘home’ and ‘away.’  It has also produced new categories of migrants along with new source and host countries.  Motives and strategies of international migration have diversified well-beyond traditional labour and refugee movements to include the repatriation of temporary guest-workers and the expatriation of privileged retirees. Recent enlargements of the European Union (EU, refer to Table 1) and implementation of the Schengen Agreement have generated multifaceted transnational mobility flows that include the permanent return of former guest-workers, the repeated return of circular migrants, and the frequent return of expatriate retirees.  Intra-EU return migration and circular migration have gained renewed and increasing importance.[1] Since the 1980s, return migration has been on the national policy agendas of numerous EU Member States.  Indeed, it has “emerged as a critical element of many governments’ migration policy” (International Organization for Migration 2004, 7).  Consequently, intra-EU return and retirement migration have (re)gained importance among academics and politicians (e.g. Dustman 1996; Hall and Müller 2004: Klinthäll 2006; Constant and Zimmermann 2007; Smallwood, Hope, and Stevenson 2008; Fassmann and Lane 2009; Kahnec and Zimmermann 2009; Kahnec, Zaiceva, and Zimmermann 2009). This paper examines the emerging redirections of these new types of demographic movement within the open and extended ‘migration space’ of a borderless Europe and the changing roles of countries as sources of emigrants and destinations.
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Kadow, Alexander (2012) Essays in European integration and economic inequalities. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. Full text available as: Preview PDF Download (1MB) | Preview Abstract The ongoing process of economic integration in Europe and beyond has already led to profound changes that are likely to manifest themselves further. Within Europe, formerly centrally planned economies have joined the European Union (EU) with the intention to ultimately introduce the common currency. On a more global scale, marginalised farmers in developing countries seek to become integrated in the world trading system to lift themselves out of poverty. However, issues surrounding economic inequalities are no longer exclusively confined to emerging economies. Indeed, awareness of income inequalities and their impact on the domestic economy is increasing among industrialised nations. This dissertation seeks to contribute to these topical debates in the form of three self-contained essays. The first essay is concerned with monetary integration in Europe. More specifically, we consider the EU member countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) that seek to adopt the euro in the foreseeable future. Our analysis is based on a global VAR (GVAR) model to investigate to what extent central banks in CEE follow the European Central Bank’s lead. We look in another core chapter at the economic implications of the Fair Trade (FT) movement. This is a fairly novel topic to the economics profession and we thus aim to provide intuitive insights. One of the key elements of our trade model is that FT generates and hinges upon economic inequalities. We combine these two aspects in the third core chapter. In particular, we analyse how monetary policy operates in an environment which is characterised by wage inequalities using a New Keynesian model that features heterogeneous labour. The third essay.