Policy responses to labour migration

The debate on the free movement of labour within the EU has gained new momentum in the wake of the economic crisis. Building on the earlier Ashgate publication EU Labour Migration Since Enlargement , the editors have assembled a team of experts from across Europe to shed light on the critical issues raised by internal labour mobility within the EU... Find out more

This working paper is an update of the 2009/3 ETUI Working Paper that was itself an abridged and revised version of the introductory chapter of the book EU Labour Migration since Enlargement: Trends, Impacts and Policies . The book, published by Ashgate in May 2009, was edited by the present authors. This updated working paper focuses on the... Find out more

One of the most important consequences of EU enlargement in May 2004 was to extend the principle of the free movement of labour to the citizens of the central and eastern European new member states. In this book a team of labour economists and migration experts sheds light on the dimensions, characteristics and impacts of cross-border labour... Find out more