Labour Migration and Unemployment. What can we learn from EU rules on the free movement of workers?
Labour Migration and Unemployment. What can we learn from EU rules on the free movement of workers?

Author(s): Sergio Carrera, Elspeth Guild
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences, Sociology, Labor relations, Migration Studies, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: CEPS Centre for European Policy Studies
Keywords: Labour Migration; Unemployment; EU rules; free movements;
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the impact of labour migration on unemployment in the context of the EU’s accession of Bulgaria and Romania and EU rules on the free movement of workers. It addresses in particular the following two questions. First, does intra-EU labour migration correlate with employment/unemploymentrates in host or home member states during periods of unsettled growth? Second, how have member states reacted in terms of restricting or allowing access to their labour markets by EU-2 workers during thetransitional periods?

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