Challenged by Migration: Europe’s Options

Amelie Constant and Klaus Zimmermann ()

No 46, GLO Discussion Paper Series from Global Labor Organization (GLO)

Abstract: This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the existence of the EU. Against all measures of success, the current public debate seems to suggest that the political consensus that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor mobility have not been at the origin of the perceived cultural shift. The EU in its current form and ambition could perfectly survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the mobility issue by not preserving free internal labor mobility and not establishing a joint external migration policy.

Keywords: labor mobility; migration; European Union; refugees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D01 D02 D61 F02 F16 F22 F66 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-int, nep-ltv and nep-mig
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