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24 July 2015: New research grant Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration and Markets
Dr Neli Demireva has been awarded a reserarch grant, GEMM: Growth, Equal Opportunities, Migration and Markets (as part of the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Commission, “EURO-2-2014: The European growth agenda Research and Innovation action 4: Migration, prosperity and growth").
This project addresses the challenges and barriers that European countries face in managing the mobility of persons to realize competitiveness and growth.
What is the research about?
This project addresses the challenges and barriers that European countries face in managing the mobility of persons to realize competitiveness and growth. For markets to function optimally, we identify two migration-related drivers of growth: the efficient use of existing human capital and managing mobility of human capital both from within and from outside Europe. A key barrier for these drivers to contribute to growth is ethnic inequality.
Why is this an important area to look at?
Inequality can be a result of the skill composition and resources of the migrant population, but also of markets not functioning optimally, for example due to ethnic discrimination, or institutional arrangements that affect the flexibility of the labour market. Inequality thus inhibits the two drivers of growth and can result in economic decline, the inability to face the demographic challenge in Europe, a scarcity of skilled labour, or an innovation deficit.
What does this research aim to achieve?
The contribution of the GEMM project is to deliver an in-depth assessment of the two drivers of growth and their relation to ethnic inequality in the European labour market. We achieve this through a unified research agenda that focuses on different types of migrants defined by the qualifications they possess. Depth is added by considering different determinants of inequality at three levels – individual, contextual and institutional.
What are the next steps for the research?
The project is for €2,498,510 and will start in September 2015 and continue until September 2018.