Labour Mobility Impact on Sending Countries. Romanian EU Workers Case Study

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 ...

Labour mobility in the EU : Dynamics , patterns and policies

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...

The Impact of Labour Market Partial Reforms on Workers’ Productivity: The Italian Case

According to a widespread point of view, flexibility in the labour market is considered a means to fight unemployment and to increase labour productivity. But if flexibility is introduced into the system at the margin (only for new contracts) then its effect may be ambiguous and even perverse as Blanchard and Landier (2002) argued. This work follows this strand and demonstrates that partial ref...

Housing Tenure and Labour Mobility: a Comparison across European Countries

This paper studies housing tenure and labour mobility using individual data from the ECHP for five European countries. First, the effect of housing tenure on the unemployed workers’ labour mobility is studied using a discrete unemployment duration model with two alternative exits to employment, depending on whether they are associated with a residential change or not. Ownership is found to affe...