Conference on 'Job mobilities in Europe', Brussels, Belgium
17 October 2008 - 17 October 2008
Belgium
A conference on 'Job mobilities in Europe - relevance, consequences, and new challenges' will take place on 17 October in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium. It is the final conference of the EU-funded project, JOBMOB AND FAMLIVES ('Job mobilities and family lives in Europe - modern mobile living and its relation to quality of life').
Despite the positive effects of job-related mobility being widely recognised and efforts being undertaken to enhance it, mobility of the European workforce has been repeatedly evaluated as relatively low. A recent study on job-related spatial mobility of all types - and not only on workforce migration - comes to striking results: almost half of the employees in Europe are mobile for job reasons or have been mobile during their professional lives. Workers are sedentary but still highly mobile because they adopt different strategies to meet mobility demands. Europeans seldom migrate, but they commute daily or weekly over long distances, hold long-distance relationships for job reasons, fulfil foreign assignments or undertake frequent business trips in Europe or worldwide.
The study was conducted by the JOBMOB AND FAMLIVES project, funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
During the conference, papers based on representative data collected in six European countries will be presented. They analyse current mobility flows and the corresponding consequences for society, economy, demographic development, gender equality, and quality of life in Europe. The findings of the study identify new challenges for the economy and suggest a change of political strategies directed to job mobility.For further information, please visit:
http://www.jobmob-and-famlives.eu/conference.html(opens in new window)
Despite the positive effects of job-related mobility being widely recognised and efforts being undertaken to enhance it, mobility of the European workforce has been repeatedly evaluated as relatively low. A recent study on job-related spatial mobility of all types - and not only on workforce migration - comes to striking results: almost half of the employees in Europe are mobile for job reasons or have been mobile during their professional lives. Workers are sedentary but still highly mobile because they adopt different strategies to meet mobility demands. Europeans seldom migrate, but they commute daily or weekly over long distances, hold long-distance relationships for job reasons, fulfil foreign assignments or undertake frequent business trips in Europe or worldwide.
The study was conducted by the JOBMOB AND FAMLIVES project, funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).
During the conference, papers based on representative data collected in six European countries will be presented. They analyse current mobility flows and the corresponding consequences for society, economy, demographic development, gender equality, and quality of life in Europe. The findings of the study identify new challenges for the economy and suggest a change of political strategies directed to job mobility.For further information, please visit:
http://www.jobmob-and-famlives.eu/conference.html(opens in new window)