Cross-border labour mobility within enlarged EU
Description
The study will focus on the causes and consequences of labour migration from new Member States; address short-term and long-term labour market and social impacts for both sending and receiving countries.
In the conceptual part, the project team will carry out a literature review on the determinants of labour migration from new Member States (i.e. differences in GDP/capita, wages, labour market characteristics) and will discuss processes and trends that characterize cross-border labour mobility at the EU level.
In the next part of the project - the implications of labour mobility on sending and receiving countries - six national case studies will be carried out. Preliminary choice of countries: three sending countries (Poland, Lithuania and Romania); three receiving countries (United Kingdom, Italy and Germany). In addition, Hungary (relatively wealthy new CEE Member State with low emigration) and SE (Member State with no transitional restrictions but relatively smaller inflows of CEE labour migrants if compared with UK and IR) are chosen for the comparative analysis. National teams in each of the six countries will be set up (one academic expert and one TU expert). Their task will be to review empirical material for their country with regard to labour mobility (skills compositions, age, gender, temp/per, sectoral allocation, etc.) and present TU approaches and policies related to labour migration. The ETUI-R project team will write overview, comparative part and conclusions.
The project is foreseen to run until September 2008. Output of the project is a book and conference in 2008.
Researchers
Andrew Watt
Senior researcher, ETUI-REHSphone: +32 (0) 2 224 05 12
Janine Leschke
Labour Market Researcher, ETUI-REHSphone: +32 (2) 224 04 69
Béla Galgóczi
Senior researcher, ETUI-REHSphone: +32 (0) 2 224 04 92
