Abstract This chapter analyses the welfare-migration nexus by looking at relationship between intra-EU mobility and welfare restrictions in Southern Europe. Specifically, addresses provision of healthcare assistance regulated European law, exploring extent to which generally welcome non-labour-motivated inflows from Northern countries Europe may lead challenge EU citizenship as a source equal a...

This paper applies the concept of hierarchised mobility to study return migration in Slovakia context country’s EU accession. The analysis is based on national Labour Force Survey dataset, covering a decade labour and between 2008/2009 financial crisis Covid pandemic, concentrating particular short-term market outcomes for less skilled migrants. It found that even under improved economic condit...

Labour productivity affects food security, but quantifying this relationship has been scarce with respect to empirical literature. The Central Madagascar dataset explores the influence of labour productivity and related variables on the food security status of cassava farmers. Drawing on both theory and empirical evidence, this paper argues that fundamental effects of links between labour produ...

We study the earning structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers to firms in a model in which workers have social preferences, and skills are perfectly substitutable in production. Firms offer long-term contracts, and we allow for frictions in the labour market in the form of mobility costs. The model delivers specific predictions about the nature of worker flows, about the characterist...

Struggling with increasing unemployment rates, many European countries intensified the role of active labour market policies (ALMP) in the 1990s. Active labour market programmes include training programmes such as job search and personality courses, computer courses, language courses and further vocational training.They also contain temporary wage and employment subsidies for competitive and fo...