National and European Mobility in the Business Environment

Abstract

Romania has the highest percentage of active population that works in another European member state. This fact appeared in time, by mixing migration and mobility. If mobility refers to employees, migration refers to people. These two terms are not interchangeable. Mobility in employment on the territory of the European Union brings different approaches in countries, in terms of salaries and skills used. The main scope of this paper is to present some relevant national and European statistics related to mobility/ migration, and to set up some advantages and disadvantages that in the future could bring new research prospects. In order to fulfill this purpose, in this paper was made a brief synthesis regarding the literature review and a descriptive statistic analysis, using data from the Eurostat website. Data was extracted for Romania and European Union, in terms of number of emigrants and vacant jobs, for the period 2006-2019. According to aur analysis, the advantages of the mobilities are especially for the employers to whom the mobilities are carried out, but appear for the employees as well. Fresh and motivated workforce, over qualified employees and increased productivity – represent advantages in this sense. The disadvantages at the international level are: new costs for the employers for which mobilities are carried out, "brain drain" and disparities between macro-regions among the EU space. Future research prospects regarding mobility in the national and european context could be, as it follows: disparities in european space throug mobilities, the over qualified employees and mobility, the “brain drain” syndrome.