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Regional Focus No.2: Labour Mobility
19.01.2009
The Directorate-General for Regional Policy (DG Regio) has published the second edition of 'Regional Focus', comparing labour mobility in the European Union and the United States.
The main focus of the paper is internal labour mobility within the European Union, but it also looks at the destination of working age populations moving to the US and the EU, and the reasons that working age Europeans move away.
There are a number of significant differences between the US and the EU, not least in terms of language, culture, labour legislation and the fact that the US is a federal state. The analysis shows that the tendency for workers and people in general to move to another country, or to another region in the same country, is much lower in the EU than between the states of the US.
It also indicates that labour mobility plays an important role in reducing the gaps in economic development between US states. It identifies the regions that attracted the highest share of working age population from other EU regions over the past year, and also takes a look at some of the main factors that cause people in the EU to move.
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Regional Focus No.2: Labour Mobility
This is the second Regional Focus paper prepared by the Directorate General for Regional Policy, comparing labour mobility in the European Union and the United States.
