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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.
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Mikkel Barslund, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
Matthias Busse, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels, Belgium.
Carlos Vargas-Silva, University of Oxford, UK.
Pawel Kaczmarczyk, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Timo Baas, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Mario Izquierdo Peinado, Bank of Spain, Madrid, Spain.
Juan F. Jimeno, Bank of Spain, Madrid, Spain.
Aitor Lacuesta, Bank of Spain, Madrid, Spain.
Béla Galgóczi, European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, Belgium.
Janine Leschke, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
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Barslund, M., Busse, M., Vargas-Silva, C. et al. Labour mobility in the EU: Dynamics, patterns and policies. Intereconomics 49, 116–158 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-014-0495-x
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