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H2020Doctoral network2018–2022

GLOMO · Global mobility of employees

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2018-01-01 → 2022-08-31
EU contribution
€3,947,612
Participants
19
Scheme
MSCA-ITN

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Results in brief

Global mobility of employees

Promoting labour mobility across Europe is a central objective of the Europe 2020 Strategy aiming to tackle increasing labour and skills shortages across the European Union (EU). Increased cross-border labour mobility benefits European citizens, employers and the European economy. Considering increasing migration into and within the EU, global mobility and international careers are highly salient themes within the European labour market. Despite an increasingly favourable legal framework for mobility in the EU, international employees still face numerous problems and obstacles hindering international careers by hampering cross-border labour mobility. Examples are the limited transferability of career capital between countries resulting in underemployment, career setbacks while abroad and on return, hostility towards foreigners, or problems of employers in retaining their expatriate employees. While many valid policy recommendations have been formulated for the national and EU levels, more detailed, academically rigorous studies of global labour mobility on the societal, organisational, and individual levels are needed, including studies of the complex interactions between these levels. The H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action “Global Mobility of Employees” aims for a more complete picture on global mobility of third-country nationals into the EU and within the EU, with a focus on its impact on international careers. Joint research and training was conducted within an interdisciplinary and intersectional network of scholars and practitioners: Seven of the most experienced academic experts on career mobility at institutions from across Europe worked together to promote research about global mobility and train 15 early-stage researchers (ESRs) as the next generation of experts in the field, while developing a unique network of experts in the academic and the corporate sector to help make labour mobility more efficient and beneficial for all parties involved. For 15 ESRs, GLOMO provided an international network with unique training opportunities that allowed them to produce unexplored knowledge by going beyond the state-of-the-art in international career research. More specifically, the objectives of GLOMO are: a. develop a systematic approach to generating knowledge about the mobility phenomenon and its implications on international careers; b. promote researchers, who will work on the topic; c. provide training to develop researchers capable of understanding the complex influences on international careers; and d. suggest relevant implications for action for the European societies and economies.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Promoting labour mobility across Europe is a central objective of the Europe 2020 Strategy and it aims to tackle increasing labour and skill shortages in the EU. Cross-border labour mobility is expected to benefit both individual citizens, employers and the aggregate economy. In addition, intra-EU mobility is a means to foster European integration. Although migration into OECD countries increases, driven largely by people moving within the EU, migration into and within Europe is still short of target levels. Despite a favourable legal framework for mobility, migrants still face a wide range of problems and obstacles that hamper cross-border labour mobility. Employment prospects for immigrants are below those of natives and overqualification, i.e. employment below skill levels, is widespread in most European countries. Consequently, the growth potential of immigrants is far from realised. Little is known about transnational mobility patterns and the length of migration episodes as well as about retention processes of foreign employees. There is considerable scope to make existing labour mobility more efficient and beneficial for all parties involved.GLOMO’s focus is on global mobility into EU countries and within the EU and its impact on careers. The policy making white papers and research suggest that the future Europe will witness even higher and more natural mobility. To assure that Europe is ready for it, our objectives are (a) to systematically generate knowledge about the mobility phenomenon and its implications (success factors, effects and added value); (b) provide trainings to (further) develop early-stage and senior researchers understanding the complex multidisciplinary phenomenon of mobility, and (c) suggest relevant implications for individuals, organisations, the European societies and economies. The joint research and training programme will be conducted within an interdisciplinary and intersectoral network of experts in the field.

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union