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Geographical mobility in Europe is a chance and a challenge for regional labour markets. There is an unknown potential for the economy as foreign labour markets may provide qualified workers and the freedom of movement brings more flexibility. On the other hand, national and regional politics face the challenge of developing systematic approaches for enhancing mobility and managing its consequences. Transparency of migration flows, a sound database and substantiated knowledge about geographical mobility is the prerequisite for all actors. Therefore this anthology provides a synopsis of the current state of the art from different countries and regions, including best practice examples and solution approaches.
About the author
Dr. Christa Larsen is a social scientist and Managing Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK) at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main. Her current work concentrates on regional labour market monitoring, regionalised analyses of labour markets for health workers, systems for information and diagnoses of labour markets and regional prognoses.
Ruth Hasberg is sociologist and scientist at the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK). Her current work is located in the fields of social structure analysis, social inequality and regional labour market monitoring on international and national level.
Prof. Dr. Alfons Schmid ist Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Direktor des Instituts für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Kultur (IWAK), Zentrum der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. Forschungsschwerpunkte: regionale Beschäftigungsentwicklung und Arbeitsmarktpolitik, neue Kommunikationstechnologien und Beschäftigung, regionale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, Einstellungen zum Sozialstaat, regionale Armuts- und Reichtumsforschung sowie regionale Prognosesysteme.
