Forum: Labour Mobility in the EU: Dynamics, Patterns and Policies

The continued economic crisis has become a major test for the labour markets of individual member states. Labour mobility within the European Union has the potential to help to reduce labour market pressures and ease economic imbalances. However, a long-term loss of working age population can be detrimental to sending countries.

This Forum explores mobility patterns within the European Union and analyses the labour market and welfare effects of labour mobility via case studies of the UK, Poland, Germany and Spain. It also examines a number of its aspects that have important political and institutional relevance for the European Union and its future.

A series of articles:

+ Mikkel Barslund and Matthias Busse: Too Much or Too Little Labour Mobility? State of Play and Policy Issues

+ Carlos Vargas-Silva: EU Migration to the UK: Trends and Impacts

+ Pawel Kaczmarczyk: EU Enlargement and Intra-EU Mobility - Lessons to Be Drawn from the Post-2004 Migration of Poles

+ Timo Baas: The Macroeconomic Impact of Intra-EU Migration on the German Economy

+ Mario Izquierdo Peinado, Juan F. Jimeno and Aitor Lacuesta
The Impact of the Crisis on Migration Flows in Spain

+ Béla Galgóczi and Janine Leschke: Post-Enlargement Intra-EU Labour Mobility Under Stress Test

• Primary Source

Intereconomics: Archive http://archive.intereconomics.eu/years/

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