Immigration, Labour Mobility and EU Enlargement

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

Labour mobility in the EU : Dynamics , patterns and policies

Labour mobility, union immobility? Trade unions & migration in the EU

The paper discusses the interactions between trade unions and migrants in the case of intra-EU migration following the EU enlargement eastwards. Against representations of unions as insiders’ exclusionary organisations, it will point at the rich evidence of cooperation within unions and migrants. In the case of the EU, it is argued, unions have particular incentives to organise migrants rather ...

Capital mobility, labour mobility, union immobility? Trade unions facing multinationals and migration in the EU

The paper addresses the issue of East-West union co-operation in Europe, through empirical evidence from case studies of western multinationals in the Czech Republic, and a review of union activities in the UK towards Polish migrants. The former show the limits of the EWC the institution which so far has been at the vanguard of Europeanisation, but has no collective bargaining role, and does no...

Varieties , Jobs and EU Enlargement

Two key factors that have so far allowed fast growing economies of central and eastern Europe to cope with their external constraint have been i) the presence of relatively low unit labour costs and ii) the initial undervaluation of the exchange rate. The accession to the EU will inevitably reduce both sources of competitiveness of eastern European exports: real wages are likely to catch-up wes...