Assessing the interrelationship between atypical work and net migration in the EU: Evidence from 17 Countries (2004–2019)
- Wien : Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw), 2025.
- 46 S., 12 Table and 14 Figures, 30cm.
- wiiw Working Papers 263 .
- wiiw Working Papers 263 .
This paper studies how atypical work, alongside other labour market conditions, affect intra-EU migration and vice versa in 17 EU countries from 2004 to 2019. Relative increases of part-time and self-employment shares in sending countries increase net migration, whereas relative increases in short fixed-term shares reduce net migration. Net migration shocks persistently reduce part-time share differentials, initially reduce self-employment share differentials and increase short fixed-term share differentials. Atypical work explains about one-fifth of net migration fluctuations five and ten years after a shock. The findings highlight the trade-off between internal (employment flexibility) and external (migration) labour market adjustments.
atypical employment intra-EU mobility pVAR labour market adjustment
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