The economic crisis has caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility, unleashing heated debates about the consequences of large-scale labour migration. This volume improves understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, and effects of the past decade’s surge in cross-border labour mobility and work related migration within Europe.

Introduction: Transnational Labour Mobility Engine For Social Convergence Or Divergence In Europe? - Jon Erik Dølvik New Patterns Of Labour Migration From Central And Eastern Europe And Its Impact On Labour Markets And Institutions In Norway: Reviewing The Evidence - Jon Horgen Friberg Policy Response To Emigration From The Baltics: Confronting `The European Elephant In The Room' - Indre Genelyte Sectoral Variation In Consequences Of Intra-European Labour Migration: How Unions And Structural Conditions Matter - Bjarke Refslund A Canadian Immigration Model For Europe? Labour Market Uncertainty And Migration Policy In Canada, Germany And Spain - Guglielmo Meardi, Antonio Martín Artiles and Axel van den Berg Move To Work, Move To Stay? Mapping Atypical Labour Migration Into Germany - Bettina Wagner and Anke Hassel freer labour markets, more rules? How Transnational Labour Mobility Can Strengthen Collective Bargaining - Alexandre Afonso East-West Mobility And The (Re-)Regulation Of Employment In Transnational Labour Markets - Torben Krings Locked In Inferiority? The Positions Of Estonian Construction Workers In The Finnish Migrant Labour Regime - Markku Sippola and Kairit Kall

Editors Dolvik and Eldring present readers with a collection of research and academic perspectives on contemporary issues involving labor mobility in the enlarged European market. The selections that make up the main body of the text are devoted to transnational labor mobility, new patterns of labor migration in Europe, policy responses to emigration from the Baltic states, and other related subjects. Jon Erik Dolvik and Line Eldring are with the Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research in Norway.