EU Mobility

Jo Ritzen (), Martin Kahanec and Jasmina Haas ()
Additional contact information
Jo Ritzen: affiliation not available
Jasmina Haas: Maastricht University

No 125, IZA Policy Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The free movement of people and of workers (intra EU mobility) is one of the corner-stones of the EU. It has overwhelmingly benefitted the citizens of the EU member states both in the countries of work and in the countries of origin. Earlier apprehensions on crowding out of less educated workers in the countries of destination and on welfare migration turned out to be by and large refuted. At the same time, EU mobility policies still need a significant deepening and upgrading, to deal with special cases of crowding out in subsectors and with fraudulent contracts. Full integration of some groups of mobile EU workers is difficult because of linguistic and cultural barriers. There is a new challenge for EU policy: integration of circular mobile migrants. EU countries should be guided by the EU to cut red tape and harmonize administration.

Keywords: EU enlargement; free movement of workers; labor mobility; migration policy; European Single Market; labor adjustment; stabilization; vibrant Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2017-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-int and nep-mig
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/pp125.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izapps:pp125

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Policy Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().