Intra-EU labour migration - Flows and policy responses

EU Labour Migration since Enlargement: Trends, Impacts and Policies

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-28

  Galgóczi, Béla ^a   Leschke, Janine ^a   Watt, Andrew ^a  

^a Employment and Social Policies Unit of the Research Department at the European Trade Union Institute   (Belgium)

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