How EU Labor Mobility Shapes Economies: Impacts on Sending and Receiving Nations

Abstract

This study explores how workers moving within the European Union affect the economies of both the countries they leave and those where they settle. We look at how migration changes economic growth, businesses, and job markets. Migration can be driven by people seeking better economic opportunities or by humanitarian needs, like asylum seekers. It's a key part of how the EU's economy works, with big consequences. We analyze data from key EU countries to build models that show these impacts. Our results show that immigration changes job markets in receiving countries and boosts innovation. Emigration benefits sending countries, mainly through money sent home by workers abroad, despite some drawbacks. This study helps us better understand the complex economic effects of migration within the EU.