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Sustainable Solidarity, Migration and Labour Market Reform |
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NONNEMAN Walter |
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Affiliation: University Antwerp |
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Keywords: Migration, Labour. Employment. Work. |
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| Abstract: | This paper analyses the issue of migration and the labour market from the angle of labour mobility. Because EU workers are so immobile, they do not arbitrage labour shortages or surpluses by changing residence. Migrants are far more mobile and reactive to employment opportunities and thus “grease the wheel” of EU labour markets. Migrant labour access control will not solution the problem of sluggish economic growth and sustainability of the welfare state. This calls for outright labour market reform. Irregular labour is a natural consequence of our labour market arrangements. Moreover, non-EU citizens are overrepresented as beneficiaries of unemployment benefits and tax allowances. This is to be considered as a tax on the immobility of European labour. |
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