Using data from the Standard Eurobarometer survey 75.1 of 2011, the paper tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a key determinant of intra-European Union (EU) mobility. It does so by estimating a multinomial logit model with propensity matching comparing those survey...

This paper assesses macroeconomic determinants of labour mobility and its role in the adjustment to asymmetric shocks. First, the paper develops stylised facts of mobility at the national and sub-national levels in the EU. Then, it explores the macroeconomic determinants of bilateral migration...

The purpose of this research is to analyze the factors affecting labour migration from the Northeast of Thailand to Bangkok; to describe the characteristics of migrant labour, and to study the demand of labour on social welfare. The random sampling of populations included the two provinces in...

Ukraine is a migration-intensive country, with an estimated 1.5-2 million labour migrants (about 5% of the working-age population). Slightly over a half of these migrants travel for work to the EU. This study discusses the impact of this large pool of migrants on both the sending and receiving...

Labour migration does not appear to have the same magnitude and socio-economic importance in Belarus as in other EaP countries. It is one of the few post-socialist economies that have preserved the dominance of the state sector and built complicated systems of subsidisation and economic support...

This Report is one of the six studies in the first phase of the EU project on the "Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries". It aims at providing an informed view of the potential for increased migration flows and their consequences as a...