Intra‐EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra‐EU labour … migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is … with high levels of short term service mobility. Service mobility/posting is as much a phenomenon of intra‐EU15 mobility …

so. Building on data for 24 European Union countries, this paper asks whether EU governments implemented additional …, social safety nets in Europe remain far below widely accepted poverty thresholds, including the EU's own official measure …

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes …

since self-employment is on the rise in many countries, particularly own-account self-employment. Drawing on EU-SILC data …

The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding substance to the EU's social dimension … how minimum wages and collective bargaining affect low pay. Using a time series cross-section of EU-SILC for income years …