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"This paper highlights the weak economic situation that currently prevails in major parts of Western Europe; it also outlines the prerequisites that are needed to make Europe attractive for international labour mobility without making domestic workers more vulnerable. This is done in four sections. The second section sets the scene for Western Europe and discusses the challenges posed by greying Europe's poor performance on growth. Section 3 reviews various channels through which more labour mobility is trickling through the labour market. Special attention is given to different types of migration, for example, highly skilled versus low-skilled migration. Drawing on Germany's experiences in implementing a new immigration law from scratch, Section 4 generalises the pros and cons of different steering devices for influencing labour mobility; it shows that the net welfare effect of migration depends heavily on how increased labour mobility is organised. This question is of major relevance for how the eastward enlargement of the EU will affect the European labour market. Section 5 concludes by blending theoretical considerations with policy recommendations." (excerpt)

"This paper highlights the weak economic situation that currently prevails in major parts of Western Europe; it also outlines the prerequisites that are needed to make Europe attractive for international labour mobility without making domestic workers more vulnerable. This is done in four sections. The second section sets the scene for Western Europe and discusses the challenges posed by greying Europe's poor performance on growth. Section 3 reviews various channels through which more labour mobility is trickling through the labour market. Special attention is given to different types of migration, for example, highly skilled versus low-skilled migration. Drawing on Germany's experiences in implementing a new immigration law from scratch, Section 4 generalises the pros and cons of different steering devices for influencing labour mobility; it shows that the net welfare effect of migration depends heavily on how increased labour mobility is organised. This question is of major relevance for how the eastward enlargement of the EU will affect the European labour market. Section 5 concludes by blending theoretical considerations with policy recommendations." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

"In this chapter the methodology of the EUCOWE project is presented. First in Section 2.2 the theoretical and methodological issues concerning the input harmonisation are reviewed. Section 2.3 deals with the design of the company survey. The observational unit, the gross and net sampling, the response rates, the organisation of the field work and the data cleaning and control for data inconsistency are addressed. In Section 2.4 the measures and formulae applied in the EUCOWE project to calculate the operating hours are defined and justified. Section 2.5 discusses the measurement of the decoupling of operating time and working time and the measurement of capacity utilisation. Methodological issues with regard to the relationship between operating hours and employment are discussed in Section 2.6, which draws this chapter to a conclusion." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))