Browsing by Author "Luo, Linzi"

The EU has undergone three eastern enlargements since 2004, resulting in a significant increase in the total population of the member states. Citizens of new member states are then allowed to move freely within the EU territory, and we can see a rise in migration from the East to West Europe. High-skilled workers are important component of human capital and are typically considered positively correlated to the productivity. Countries all want the higher skilled workers and they adopt skill-biased immigration policies. In this dissertation, I use matching model of skills to tasks to interpret how regional economic disparities can influence the mobility of workers of different skill levels, especially the high-skilled workers, and how the distribution of skills then influence the regional economic development and the changes in wages of workers. Skills matching is important as the mismatch of skills can be detrimental to the self-development of individuals and economic development due to brain waste. The implication of matching model to real-world European Union case can partially explain socio-economic phenomenons, such as overqualification, brain drain and offshoring. Even if EU has made great achievements in promoting the mobility of people, the matching model can only be used in an ideal senario that free movement of workers are allowed. In reality, there are still barriers that negatively influence the mobility of EU citizens. Therefore, in the next chapter, I will analysis the factors that hinders the people’s movements.