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...positions migrants are filling, economists say, are either ones that locals don't want or new positions altogether. In fact, the infusion of educated labor drove growth in host countries' most dynamic sectors. Izabela Chudzicka, 26, arrived with a diploma in economics and now stars in her own Polish-language TV show in Dublin. Ireland, she says, has given her opportunities she could only dream of at home. Sure, she would be ready to go back "if the job is there." But Ireland's 150,000 Poles form a viable submarket for Polish-language media. Chudzicka is like the majority...
...Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three of the E.U.'s then 15 countries--Ireland, Britain and Sweden--opened their labor markets...
...Polish success story is feeding the labor debate as the E.U. continues to expand to the east and new countries such as Romania and Bulgaria join. Despite their positive experience with immigrants, both Britain and Ireland decided to maintain labor restrictions on Romania and Bulgaria for the time being. And countries such as Germany and France are keeping the labor door shut to new member states--E.U. law permits them to do so until...
...writer is editor and publications coordinator of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School...
...hoped her plan would unite and empower the village’s residents by involving them in the project. “One of my biggest points of the proposal is that the only cost is the cost of the materials, and the largest contribution comes from the volunteer labor of the villagers themselves,” she said, adding that the destroyed facility had acted as a cultural center for the villagers. Kobiljar submitted her proposal through the foundation’s “100 Projects for Peace” initiative, which invited students from the 76 colleges...