This paper assesses macroeconomic determinants of labour mobility and its role in the adjustment to asymmetric shocks … lower. Thirdly, the paper looks at mobility as a channel of economic adjustment by means of a VAR analysis in the vein of …

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 … shocks have almost doubled since the introduction of the euro. In contrast to previous papers on the labour market adjustment …