LABOUR FORCE MIGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS IN THE EU AREA. BENEFITS AND COSTS
LABOUR FORCE MIGRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS IN THE EU AREA. BENEFITS AND COSTS

Summary/Abstract: The free circulation of the labour force in the EU area has acquired new dimensions in the past few years, after the well-established EU Member States have opted, for a long period of time, for a restrictive policy as regards the free movement of the labour force. Realities such as: the global financial and economic crisis, the deficit of specialists in specific fields of some EU member states, as well as their excess in some other states, or more attractive working conditions offered in the more developed member states,from the economic point of view, in relation to the developing countries, but not only, seem to have contributed to a greater flexibility of migration policies and strategies in the EU area. In this paper, we strive to analyze the way in which the developments in the migration of the labour force have a positive or negative impact on the citizens of EU Member States in the context of the free movement of persons, in a period in which the economy of the European Single market is generically characterised by stagnation, instability or decrease. On the substance of those issues, of major importance for our study are the EU citizens who feel or not that they register an increase of the quality of life in relation to changes recorded by a series of macroeconomic and/or social indicators such as: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, Actual Individual Consumption (AIC) per capita, Unemployment rate, Guaranteed minimum wage, AROPE indicator, Immigration and Emigration Persons and/or Trade in services, which we will analyze below.

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