Raul Eamets
The opening of labour markets in an expanded EU has led to massive labour flows. Raul Eamets is investigating the effects that return migration in his own country, Estonia, has had on occupational mobility. In a nearly completed study, he shows that the experience of working abroad is positively related with upward occupational mobility or career mobility after returning to the home country.
During his stay at CESifo, Raul Eamets will continue his research on the recent crises in the Baltic countries: How did goverments react to the recession? What were the labour market consequences and how has income distribution been affected? He is also examining the reservation wages of labour market minorities.
In his research Raul Eamets has focused on labour market issues: education and labour markets, labour market flexibility and flexicurity, labour market policy in the EU, labour market flows, labour relations in central and eastern European countries, employment and unemployment in the Baltic countries, labour market policy in transition countries and the efficiency of labour policy. His numerous publications include articles in the European Journal of Industrial Relations, Energy Policy, Post-Communist Studies, Transfer, the Baltic Journal of Economics and the Baltic Journal of Management.
Raul Eamets is professor of macroeconomics at the University of Tartu, Estonia, having received his PhD from this universtiy in 2000. He has been visiting researcher in Birkbeck, University of London, at IZA (Bonn) where he is a research fellow, at CERG-EI (Praque) and at Aarhus University. He has worked as a national labour market expert for ILO, European Council, EF, ETF, World Bank, OECD and ETUI. From 2004 to 2009 he was member of Supervisory Board of Estonian Central Bank (Eesti Pank).