The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31
countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across
European countries remain considerably lower than interstate migration in the United States,
and spatial variation in terms of unemployment or income levels is larger. We document
patterns of migration in Europe, which include a sizable migration from east to west in the
last twenty years. An analysis of worker-level microdata provides some evidence for an …

The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31
countries that cover most of the continent’ s population. However, rates of migration
across European countries remain considerably lower than interstate migration in the United
States, and spatial variation in terms of unemployment or income levels is larger. We
document patterns of migration in Europe, which include a sizable migration from east to
west in the last twenty years. An analysis of worker-level microdata provides some evidence …