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Visiting Research Fellow, 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. Associate Professor at the Central European University in Budapest and founder and Scientific Director of CELSI, Bratislava. 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 labor and population economics, ethnicity, migration, and reforms in Central Eastern European labor markets. Martin Kahanec has published in refereed research journals, contributed chapters in collected volumes including the Oxford Handbook of Economic Inequality (OxfordUP), and he has edited several scientific book volumes and journal special issues. He is the Managing Editor of the IZA Journal of European Labor Studies.
Martin Kahanec has held several advisory positions and participated in a number of scientific and policy projects with the World Bank, the European Commission, OECD, and other international and national institutions.
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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IZA Discussion Papers:
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Martin Kahanec
Brian Fabo
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Migration Strategies of the Crisis-Stricken Youth in an Enlarged European Union
(forthcoming in: Transfer: European Review of Labor and Research, 2013) |
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
(forthcoming in: International Handbook of the Economics of Migration) |
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Martin Kahanec
Anna Myunghee Kim
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 39-55.) |
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Martin Kahanec
Renáta Králiková
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Pulls of International Student Mobility
(shortened version forthcoming as 'Higher Education Policy and Migration: The Role of International Student Mobility' in: CESifo DICE Report, 2012, 9(4), 20-27) |
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Corrado Giulietti
Martin Guzi
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration: Evidence from the EU
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 24-38. Discussed in media like The Guardian, Handelsblatt, Die Welt, among others.) |
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Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
(published in: Barry R. Chiswick (ed.), High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market, Washington DC, The AEI Press, 2011. 264-314) |
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Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 31 - 54) |
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Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 1 - 30) |
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Martin Kahanec
Mutlu Yuksel
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Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital under Post-War Distress: The Displaced and the Roma in the Former Yugoslavia
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 415-443) |
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Martin Kahanec
Michael P. Shields
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The Working Hours of Immigrants in Germany: Temporary versus Permanent
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Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Ulf Rinne
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Ethnicity, Job Search and Labor Market Reintegration of the Unemployed
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2011, 32 (7), 753-776) |
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Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), EU Labor Markets after Post-Enlargement Migration, Springer: Berlin, et al. 2009, 3-45) |
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Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?
(published by the European Commission as Economic Paper 363, March 2009; and in: Filip Keereman and István Pál Székely (eds.), Five years of an enlarged EU - a positive-sum game, pp. 63-94, Springer: Berlin, et al., 2010) |
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Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure
(published in: German Data Forum (RatSWD): Buildung on Progress: Expanding the Research Infrastructure for the Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciencs, Vol. 2, Opladen and Farmington Hills, MI, 2010, 689 - 701) |
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Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Attitudes towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1-2), 5-14) |
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Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
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Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
(substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford et al., 2009, 455 - 490) |
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Martin Kahanec
Anzelika Zaiceva
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Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-Citizens in the EU: An East-West Comparison
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2009, 30 (1+2), 97-115) |
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
(published in: Gil Epstein and Ira Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 205-229) |
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Martin Kahanec
Mariapia Mendola
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Social Determinants of Labor Market Status of Ethnic Minorities in Britain
(published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2009, 29, 167-195 ) |
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Martin Kahanec
Mehmet S. Tosun
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Political Economy of Immigration in Germany: Attitudes and Citizenship Aspirations
(published in: International Migration Review, 2009, 43 (2), 263 - 291) |
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Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
(published in: Eastern European Economics, 2011, 49 (6), 103–115) |
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Amelie F. Constant
Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2012, 20 (1), 1-35) |
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Ethnic Specialization and Earnings Inequality: Why Being a Minority Hurts but Being a Big Minority Hurts More
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The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market
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Two Faces of the ICT Revolution: Desegregation and Minority-Majority Earnings Inequality
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IZA Policy Papers:
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Martin Kahanec
Lucia Kureková
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European Union Expansion and Migration
(forthcoming in: Immanuel Ness (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley - Blackwell, 2013) |
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Martin Kahanec
Klaus F. Zimmermann
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A Policy Agenda for Diversity and Minority Integration
(published in: M. Kahanec and K. F. Zimmermann (eds.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011, 307 - 311) |
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IZA Forschungsgutachten:
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Martin Kahanec
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Report No. 49: Skilled Labor Flows: Lessons from the European Union
Report under the World Bank ASEAN Labor Markets program funded by AusAid, Bonn 2012 (93 pages)
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Klaus F. Zimmermann
Martin Kahanec
Corrado Giulietti
Martin Guzi
Alan Barrett
Bertrand Maitre
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Report No. 43: Study on Active Inclusion of Migrants
Report prepared for the European Commission, Bonn 2012 (216 pages)
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Martin Kahanec
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Report No. 21: The Decade of Roma Inclusion: A Unifying Framework of Progress Measurement and Options for Data Collection
Research report for the "Decade of Roma Inclusion 2005-2015", Bonn 2009 (50 pages)
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Klaus F. Zimmermann
Martin Kahanec
Amelie F. Constant
Don J. DeVoretz
Liliya Gataullina
Anzelika Zaiceva
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Report No. 16: Study on the Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities
Report for the High Level Advisory Group on Social and Labour Market Integration of Ethnic Minorities and the European Commission, Bonn 2008 (166 pages)
[German version] (Studie über die soziale Eingliederung und Arbeitsmarktintegration ethnischer Minderheiten)
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