This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States have regulated their social security frameworks in relation to short-term thirdcountry national (TCN) migrant workers. It presents the result of an extensive mapping exercise carried out in 24 EU Member States, as...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Europe has benefitted strongly from being an open economy that can access goods and services from other parts of the world. Paradoxically, some politicians in Europe think that dependence on foreign supplies reduced the resilience of our economy - and argue that...

The onset of the financial crisis in 2008 has highlighted the problems of diverging external imbalances within Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and the role of persistent losses in competitiveness. This paper starts by investigating some of the competitiveness factors which contributed to...

Ausländer sind von Arbeitslosigkeit besonders betroffen. Über alle Altersgruppen hinweg war ihre Arbeitslosenquote mit 13,4 Prozent drei Mal so hoch wie jene der Inländer (4,6 Prozent). Dies stellt die Statistik Austria bei der Auswertung des Mikrozensus 2006 fest. Man kann davon ausgehen,...

Die vorliegende Recherche wurde von der ÖSB-Unternehmensberatung Gesellschaft mbH in Wien in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Gewerbe- und Handelsforschung (ebenfalls Wien) im Kontext des Rahmenvertrages 2001/2002 'Internationale Recherchen', beauftragt vom Arbeitsmarktservice Österreich,...

Die dänischen Beschäftigten in Deutschland sind eine sehr kleine Gruppe. Nur 0,02 Prozent der sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten haben einen dänischen Pass. Gleichwohl unterscheiden sich die dänischen Beschäftigten in wichtigen Strukturmerkmalen signifikant von der Gesamtheit. Die...

Over the coming years, the workingage population of native Danes is expected to fall substantially, and tailwinds from past labour market reforms will, to some extent, die down. As the structural labour force is expected to increase at a slower pace, international recruitments may come to play...

This report provides an overview of the ways in which EU and EEA Member States regulate the immigration of third-country nationals who enter their territory for the purpose of work. Its focus is on short-term migrant workers and it presents the result of an extensive mapping exercise carried out...