Intra-EU Mobility of Seasonal Workers

Intra-EU Mobility of Seasonal Workers
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre:
ISBN: 9789276326366

This report focuses on the importance of seasonal work in the context of free movement of workers. This topic gained particular importance during the COVID-19 pandemic, when borders were closed and seasonal workers residing in other countries were hampered to get to or return from their places of work. The importance of such seasonal workers for certain economic sectors became quite visible, as well as the difficulties these seasonal workers are faced with. The report follows the commitment from the Commission Guidelines on Seasonal Workers in the EU in the Context of the COVID-19 Outbreak to collect data on intra-EU seasonal work and identify the main challenges faced including during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, it does not focus on the tools meant to support seasonal workers, since they are covered in the Commission Guidelines. The specific group of EU citizens living in one Member State and carrying out seasonal work in another Member State ('intra-EU seasonal workers' in the following) is not frequently studied. As these workers only stay in the country of work for a short period and there is little information about their work in the country of residence, there is little statistical information available about this group. This report seeks to fill this gap and presents the results of a first exercise to develop an operational definition and estimate approximate figures on this group.

Report on Mobile Seasonal Workers and Intra-EU Labour Mobility

Report on Mobile Seasonal Workers and Intra-EU Labour Mobility
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Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023
Genre:
ISBN: 9789268054802

Mobile seasonal workers play an important role in the European labour market by increasing the supply of labour in times of the year when there is more work than the domestic market can supply workers for. This allows sectors that are marked by strong seasonality - notably agriculture, hospitality and tourism - to bolster their staff with workers from another country if they are not able to allocate all their work using only domestic applicants.

The Impact of Intra-EU Mobility on Immigration by Third-Country Foreign Workers

The Impact of Intra-EU Mobility on Immigration by Third-Country Foreign Workers
Author: Emily Farchy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2016
Genre: Employment
ISBN:

This paper is part of the joint project between the Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission and the OECD's Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs on "Review of Labour Migration Policy in Europe". This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union. Grant: HOME/2013/EIFX/CA/002 / 30-CE-0615920/00-38 (DI130895) A previous version of this paper (DELSA/ELSA/MI(2015)10) was presented and discussed at the OECD working party on migration in June 2015 This paper examines the impact of the free flow of migrants within the EU on the prospects of labour migrants from third countries - the extent to which free movement migrants and third country migrants are substitutes or complements on the labour market. The first section of this paper looks at the recent trends in migration to the European Union, with a particular focus on trends in the 'big five' recipient countries. The analysis is supplemented by the use of micro data from the EU Labour Force Survey, to examine the extent to which the socio-economic and job characteristics suggest that EU migrants and third country migrants provide a similar labour input. Aggregate migrant flows, however, are driven by both supply and demand factors; a comparison of aggregate trends is therefore insufficient to disentangle the disparate drivers of these trends. A booming economy, for example, will attract labour migrants from both EU and third countries, yet the positive relation between these flows cannot be attributed to a complementarity between these labour inputs but rather to the demand side factors that drive them both. To overcome this endogeneity the second section of this paper utilizes the natural experiment of EU enlargement to isolate the impact of the increased supply of free movement migrants on third country migrant populations. Abstracting in this manner from the economic factors that have played such an important role in determining labour demand in recent years the empirical analysis of this paper identifies a negative impact on the arrivals of third country migrants when labour supply from new EU migrants increases. Furthermore, the lack of identifiable impact on the employment rate of third country migrants is dependent on assumptions regarding the counterfactual employment outcomes of these displaced third country migrants.

Blessing and Curse of Intra-EU Mobility

Blessing and Curse of Intra-EU Mobility
Author: Christiane Heimann
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2020-09-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3658314869

Christiane Heimann provides insights on how the economic and political situation in Spain, Germany and the UK affects the institutional implementation of free labour movement and how mobile EU citizens navigate the institutional policies strategically. The study examines different profiles of EU citizens exercising free labour movement and shows ways of EU labour recruitment and transnational labour integration taking into account the institutional implementation of related EU policies. Intra-Community mobility policies and practices will be assessed in terms of their effectiveness for international recruitment and labour integration.

Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era

Temporary Labour Migration in the Global Era
Author: Joanna Howe
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509906312

In the global era, controversies abound over temporary labour migration; however, it has not previously been subjected to a sustained socio-legal analysis on a comparative basis, critiquing the underpinning concepts conventionally accepted as fundamental in this area. This collection of essays aims to fill that void. Complex regulatory challenges arise from temporary labour migration. This collection examines these challenges and the extent to which temporary labour migration programmes can be ethical, equitable and efficacious and so deliver decent work for workers. Whilst the tendency for migration law to divide labour law's worker-protective mission has been observed before, the authors of the chapters comprising this collection seek not only to interrogate why and how this is so, but to go further in examining the implications and effects of a wide range of regulatory mechanisms on temporary labour migration.

Workers without Borders

Workers without Borders
Author: Ines Wagner
Publisher: ILR Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501729179

How the European Union handles posted workers is a growing issue for a region with borders that really are just lines on a map. A 2008 story, dissected in Ines Wagner’s Workers without Borders, about the troubling working conditions of migrant meat and construction workers, exposed a distressing dichotomy: how could a country with such strong employers’ associations and trade unions allow for the establishment and maintenance of such a precarious labor market segment? Wagner introduces an overlooked piece of the puzzle: re-regulatory politics at the workplace level. She interrogates the position of the posted worker in contemporary European labour markets and the implications of and regulations for this position in industrial relations, social policy and justice in Europe. Workers without Borders concentrates on how local actors implement European rules and opportunities to analyze the balance of power induced by the EU around policy issues. Wagner examines the particularities of posted worker dynamics at the workplace level, in German meatpacking facilities and on construction sites, to reveal the problems and promises of European Union governance as regulating social justice. Using a bottom-up approach through in-depth interviews with posted migrant workers and administrators involved in the posting process, Workers without Borders shows that strong labor-market regulation via independent collective bargaining institutions at the workplace level is crucial to effective labor rights in marginal workplaces. Wagner identifies structures of access and denial to labor rights for temporary intra-EU migrant workers and the problems contained within this system for the EU more broadly.