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There are as yet no published studies on the significance of changes in the composition of theworkforce at the enterprise level for the employees ' living conditions (salary, job opportunities,health and accidents), but studies of organizational changes in Danish companies have shownthat changes can lead to health problems (26).New knowledgeThe project will contribute with new knowledge about the importance of globalisation – here inparticular the importance of labour migration from the new EU countries from Eastern Europewith regard to health, working conditions and environment on skilled and non-skilled jobs. Theproject will, among other things, identify the cooperation and potential tensions betweenEastern European workers and Danish workers as well as former and new potential segregationon the labour market. Furthermore, the project puts focus on how safety culture is developingalong with the changes the free mobility of labour is creating on the Danish labour market. Theproject will thus qualify the debate on the organisation of the future Danish labour market forthe benefit of both workers and employers/business and the Danish society.The lack of knowledge of migrant workers' working conditions also means that there is a lack oftools to facilitate the migrant workers' inclusion and, in the long term retention on the Danishlabour market, and to ensure the retention of the current Danish standard for the workingenvironment, working conditions and wage levels. It is the research initiative’s vision tocontribute with new knowledge and practical tools for the management and handling of thechange and the growing diversity, as the free mobility of labour in the EU has created on theDanish labour market.The research initiative focuses specifically on the construction and cleaning industry, but at thesame time, examines the extent to which the problems and therefore the results can begeneralized from these two industries. The two industries are chosen for several reasons: bothindustries have a high concentration of Eastern European workers; in both industries, work isrisky in relation to accidents and health; the one industry (construction/plant) is maledominatedand the other (cleaning) traditionally female dominated, and the two branches of alinear transformation between the spectrum of the status of a skilled trade and the lowestimated cleaning work.Ruth Emerek & Anja Kirkeby • CoMID (Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity • Aalborg University • Denmark Page 6
Preliminary resultsSurvival and duration analysis reveal that almost half the migrants from the new EasternEuropean EU-countries settle in Denmark for a longer period.Five years (60 months) after the their first encounter into Denmark since the EU-enlargementbetween 20 % (from Bulgaria) and 60% (from Czech Republic) of migrants from the variousEastern European EU-countries have left Denmark (figure next page).A duration analysis on first entrance to first exit after the EU-enlargement shows that origin (inform of citizenship) has significant influence on the duration of stay. Migrants from Romaniaand Bulgaria have a twice as long an estimated continuous first stay than other easternEuropean migrants.Migrants who stayed a period in Denmark before the EU-enlargement and prior to the end ofthe special Danish East agreement had a shorter stay than persons immigrated after (83%).Women have a significant longer stay than men, while age at immigration seems less importantexcept for migrants younger than 30 years of age.Ruth Emerek & Anja Kirkeby • CoMID (Center for the Study of Migration and Diversity • Aalborg University • Denmark Page 7
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