Labour Immobility
Migration and mobility have for a long caught a lot of attention in theory as well as in public debate. But in actual fact the large majority of people does not move. Worldwide, only about 2% of the total population live outside their home countries. For Europe, records on internal mobility are not substantially different. In many European countries mobility has had a tendency to decrease substantially since the late sixties and early seventies. Not migration, immobility is the fact the dominant mass phenomenon of European populations at the end of 21 century, and it is the one of the fundamental reasons for the high and stable structural unemployment rate.But what is the mobility of labour? It means the ease with which labour can be transferred from one form of employment to another. There are two types of mobility: movement from one employment to another-occupational mobility; and mobility in the sense of movement from one place to another, that is, geographical mobility. Occupational immobility refers to the situation that the workers are unwilling to change the nature of their job, for example, work as the bank tellers, they do not want to change to other jobs other than being
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