Measuring Geographical Mobility in Regional Labour Market Monitoring: State of the Art and Perspectives - Softcover

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.

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 is Professor for Economics at the faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main and scientific Director of the Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture (IWAK). His main areas of research are regional developments of employment and labour markets, regional competitiveness, regional forecasting, regional studies on poverty, wealth and attitudes towards the welfare state. Marc Bittner is senior researcher at the Paul Lazarsfeld Society for Social Research (PLG) and at the Society for Studies of Social Science (SWS) in Vienna. His research focuses on statistical analysis, as well as quantitative and qualitative social research on various topics like labour market, migration, enlargement of the EU, South-East-Europe and elderly care. Franz Clément, PhD, is social scientist working in the field of labour market policy, cross-border workers and social dialogue at the CEPS/INSTEAD research institute in Luxembourg. He is head of the REPREM unit (Relations Professionnelles et Emploi). In previous years he was responsible for the monitoring of several projects concerning the Greater Region s labour market, especially the EURES programme (European Employment Services).