Labour Mobility in the Enlarged Single European Market.

Front Cover -- Labour Mobility in the Enlarged Single European Market -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Transnational Labour Mobility - Engine for Social Convergence or Divergence in Europe? -- Background -- Labour Mobility within and across National Borders: Similar or Different? -- Micro-Economic Choice and Institutional Regime Shopping: Competing Scenarios -- Overview of the Contributions -- Labour Market Consequences and Societal Effects -- Labour Market-Oriented Management of Third-Country Immigration? -- The Quandary of Free Movement and Labour Market (Re)Regulation -- Re-Regulation of Employment Conditions: Necessary but Insufficient? -- Lessons for European Researchers and Policy Makers? -- Notes -- References -- New Patterns of Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe and its Impact on Labour Markets and Institutions in Norway: Reviewing the Evidence -- Introduction -- Theoretical Perspectives on Labour Migration -- Economic Perspectives -- Sociological Perspectives -- Institutional Perspectives -- Data Sources and Empirical Approaches -- Key Findings -- Volume and Patterns of Migration Flows -- Labour Market Integration and Social Mobility -- Impact on Labour Markets and Domestic Workers -- Institutional Responses and Their Effects -- Summary and Discussion -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Policy Response to Emigration from the Baltics: Confronting 'The European Elephant in the Room' -- Introduction -- EU Enlargement and Free Movement of Workers: The 'Multiple Winnings' -- Emigration from the Baltics: Patterns and Characteristics -- Who Is 'Winning'? Policy Responses to Emigration in the Baltic States -- Estonia: Free Movement Is Not a Problem -- 'We Always Wanted it' -- Latvia: 'Competing for Our Own People' -- Lithuania: Encouraging the Engagement of the Diaspora -- Conclusion.

Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Sectoral Variation in Consequences of Intra-European Labour Migration: How Unions and Structural Conditions Matter -- Introduction -- Background and Analytical Framework -- Empirical Variation in Labour Migration and International Competition in Four Danish Sectors -- Slaughterhouses -- Cleaning -- Agriculture -- Transportation -- Discussing the Divergent Outcomes across the Four Sectors -- Mobility of Capital, Services, Access to Establishment and Competition -- Union Power and Structural Conditions -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- A Canadian Immigration Model for Europe? Labour Market Uncertainty and Migration Policy in Canada, Germany and Spain -- Introduction -- Migration Policies and Labour Market Flexibility -- Migration and Unemployment -- Canada -- Germany -- Spain -- The Evolution of Migration Policy in Relation to the Labour Market -- Canada -- Germany -- Spain -- Conclusions -- References -- Move to Work, Move to Stay? Mapping Atypical Labour Migration into Germany -- Introduction -- Institutional and Legal Frameworks for Migration within the European Union and the German Implementation Strategy -- Theories of Migration: Typical and Atypical Labour Migration -- Germany: The Major Receiving Country of Europe's Mobile Labour -- Seasonal Work -- Posted Workers -- Solo Self-Employment -- Restriction and Circumvention: Typical and Atypical Forms of Migration to Germany -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Freer Labour Markets, More Rules? How Transnational Labour Mobility Can Strengthen Collective Bargaining -- Introduction -- Internationalisation, Coalition Politics and Re-Regulation -- Politics: Internationalisation and the Reconfiguration of Domestic Political Cleavages -- Industrial Relations: Employer Preferences and Cross-Class Protectionist Coalitions.

Cases and Methods -- Transnational Labour Mobility and the Politics of Collective Bargaining in Switzerland -- Industrial Relations and Immigration Control -- European Integration and the Free Movement of Labour and Services -- Political Cleavages and Domestic Corporatist Compromises -- Employer Cleavages and Cross-Class Protectionist Coalitions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- East-West Mobility and the (Re-)Regulation of Employment in Transnational Labour Markets -- EU Enlargement and a Transnational Mobility Space -- Germany and Austria: Labour Mobility, Cross-Border Postings and Dualisation Tendencies -- Germany -- Austria -- UK and Ireland: Migration, Flexible Labour Markets and Issues of (Non-) Compliance -- UK -- Ireland -- Comparison: 'Varieties of Employment Regulation' and the Role of Labour Markets Actors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Locked in Inferiority? The Positions of Estonian Construction Workers in the Finnish Migrant Labour Regime -- Introduction -- Different Labour Regimes for Natives and Migrants -- The Construction Sector in Finland -- Methodology -- The Making of the Migrant Labour Regime: Government's Deliberate Strategy and Construction Companies' Reactions to It -- The Structure of the Finnish Migrant Labour Regime -- Posted Workers -- Employed by a Firm Registered in Finland but Operated by Estonians -- Self-Employed and Small Business Owners -- Employed by a Finnish Firm -- Concluding Discussion -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- References -- About the Authors.

The economic crisis has caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility, unleashing heated debates about the consequences of large-scale labour migration. This volume improves understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, and effects of the past decade's surge in cross-border labour mobility and work related migration within Europe.

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