. First, the paper develops stylised facts of mobility at the national and sub-national levels in the EU. Then, it explores … significantly when a country joins the EU. While euro area membership seems not to be associated with an overall rise in the …

This paper assesses the role of labour mobility in the adjustment to asymmetric economic shocks in the EU. After … presenting a series of stylised facts of mobility in the EU, it assesses mobility as a channel of economic adjustment by means of … in the EU, the response of wages is integrated to the analysis. It is found that real wages have also become more …

The paper sheds light on developments in labour market matching in the EU after the crisis. First, it analyses the main … features of the Beveridge curve and frictional unemployment in EU countries, with a view to isolate temporary changes in the … labour market matching deteriorated after the crisis, but with a great deal of heterogeneity across EU countries. Divergence …