Labour migrants from Central and Eastern Europe in the Nordic countries
- Patterns of migration, working conditions and recruitment practices
Contribution to report by Søren Kaj Andersen, Jens Arnholtz and Nana Wesley Hansen
This report presents the results from a project that has aimed to generate new comparative knowledge about labour migration from Central and Eastern Europe to the Nordic countries - the factors that shape wage and working conditions for labour migrants and recruitment processes and practices. In the report we:
- describe and compare patterns of labour migration between Central and Eastern Europe and the Nordic countries
- compare the working conditions of Polish labour migrants in in Oslo, Copenhagen and Reykjavik – and analyse how their labour market situation is shaped by variations in national regulations, systems of collective bargaining and local labour market structures
- analyse the particular role of recruitment agencies in introducing new migrants to the Nordic labour markets
The research has been conducted by a team of researchers from Fafo (Norway), FAOS (Denmark), CIRRA/MIRRA (Iceland), CMR (Poland) and SOFI (Sweden). The report is edited by Jon Horgen Friberg and Line Eldring. It is published by the Nordic Council of Ministers.