One of the most significant changes in recent years has been an evolution in the role of education in the global arena. As education has increasingly assumed the role of a tradeable service, countries from all parts of the world have become active participants in the ongoing internationalization...

The Italian passive patient mobility is among the highest in the EU. This is a sign of a remarkable trend by which Italian patients undertake the so called "health journeys", mainly due to the obvious desire of each patient to look for the best and cheapest health care provided as early as...

This paper provides a discussion of the Commission's July 2008 proposal for a Directive on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare (the proposed patient mobility Directive). It does so against the background of an overview of the preceding patient mobility case law of the...

Mobility and migration processes of globalization are not only recent, but they are an integral part of the world. Human mobility is an essential feature of human culture. Today’s world is not the same as that world that has given risen to the phenomenon of anthropology. It cannot be ignoring...

Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration emanating from outside Europe, sectoral skill shortages...

Labour mobility creates economic benefits for the EU at large and the mobile workforce. The same can be said for the special case of posted workers – a form of labour mobility that is crucial to the functioning of the internal market for services. Moreover, the number of posted workers is set...

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility on health care quality, health care financing and...

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...

An emerging generation of mobile applications is viewing mobility as a way to create interactive experiences that rely on or exploit movement and space in the urban context. By drawing on a design-oriented approach, this paper investigates a mobile relocation service application (linked to a...