Demographic change, migratory and labour market processes in South East Europe

International conference, Budapest, 22 May 2013
Hungarian Central Statistical Office
1024 Budapest, Keleti Károly u. 5-7.

An event of the „SEEMIG – Managing Migration in South East Europe” project
www.seemig.eu

If you wish to participate, please notify us via seemig@demografia.hu by 17 May 2013.

<< PROGRAM

AGENDA

9:30 – 10:00 Arrival and registration of participants
Access through the main entrance of the Hungarian Central Statistical Office, Keleti Károly u. 5-7.
10:00 – 10:20 Opening of the conference and welcoming of the participants
Keleti Károly Hall
Gabriella Vukovich, president (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)

10:20 – 12:00 PLENARY SESSION
Keleti Károly Hall
Moderator: Béla Soltész (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)

10:20 – 10:40 Opening remarks
Dragan Vukmiroviæ, director general (Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia)
Johannes Gabriel (South East Europe Transnational Cooperation Programme)
Attila Melegh (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)

10:40 – 11:00 Governing Mobility in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities
Martin Kahanec (Central European University)

11:00 – 11:20 Developmental Idealism, Demographic Change and Migration
Arland Thornton (University of Michigan)

11:20 – 11:40 South East Europe in the Scope of Global Labour-market Needs
Tamás Köpeczi-Bócz (Corvinus University of Budapest)

11:40 – 12:00 Debate

12:00 – 13:00 Buffet lunch
Árvay János Hall

13:00 – 14:30 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS ON STRATEGY BUILDING

Workshop 1/A: Population, migration and labour market – evidence based strategy building
on a national and local level
Keleti Károly Hall
What institutional constellations have been utilized and what lessons have been learnt
concerning contradicting strategic goals? How national population, labour market and
migration strategies have been constructed and how they can be related to each other?
Moderator: István Horváth (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj,
Romania)
Discussants:
Anna Lucia Colleo (Making Migration Work for Development project)
András Kováts (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Menedék – Hungarian Association for
Migrants)
Tamás Molnár (Hungarian Ministry of Interior)

Workshop 1/B: The impact of outmigration on demographic and labour market processes
Fényes Elek Hall
What impact does outmigration have on demographic, human capital and labour market
processes from the point of view of brain drain, brain waste, care drain, higher education,
social insurance transfers, ageing and the decline of fertility? What new evidence we have?
Moderator: Nada Stropnik (Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Discussants:
Imre Enyedi (YURA project)
László Moravcsik (PAIRS project)
Ferenc Szigeti-Böröcz (Silver City project)

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
Catering in Árvay János Hall

15:00 – 16:30 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS ON DATA SYSTEMS

Workshop 2/A: Reform attempts of migration statistics on a national and European level
Fényes Elek Hall
What attempts have been on various levels, what institutional synergies have been built and
what success and/or failure could be observed? What lessons can be drawn?
Moderator: Elisabeth Musil (University of Vienna, Austria)
Discussants:
Ádám Dickmann (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
Miklós Faragó (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
Ferenc Urbán (Office for Immigration and Nationality, Hungary)

Workshop 2/B: Use of labour market, migration and population data on a local level
Keleti Károly Hall
What experience we can collect concerning the use of statistical data on migration and labour
market in preparing local developmental strategies and regional policy scenarios?
Moderator: Gert Guri (University of Trento, Italy)
Discussants:
Zsombor Cseres-Gergely (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Ágnes Fiedler (Re-Turn and CE-Aging projects)
Attila Molnár (Municipality of Budapest, Hungary)
Melinda Szabó (CityScalers project)

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
Catering in Árvay János Hall

17:00 – 18:00 CLOSING PLENARY SESSION, CAPITALISATION OF RESULTS
Keleti Károly Hall

17:00 – 17:40 Concluding remarks by the moderators of each workshop
Gert Guri (University of Trento, Italy)
István Horváth (Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj, Romania)
Elisabeth Musil (University of Vienna, Austria)
Nada Stropnik (Institute for Economic Research, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

17:40 – 18:00 Capitalisation of results, concluding remarks
Attila Melegh (Hungarian Central Statistical Office)
Borbála Bodzsár (HBH Euroconsulting, Hungary)

18:00 End of the conference