Study title

The opening of markets for labor, services, capital and goods between high-and low-cost countries in Europe creates new conditions for action for businesses and workers in both the old and new EU / EEA countries. Cross-border changes in patterns of corporate and labor mobility affects the adaptation and regulation of product and labor markets in many industries and places players in the labor market and the government faces new strategic decisions relating to recruitment, inclusion / exclusion issues and the regulation of wages and working conditions. Survey conducted by Fafo the first half of 2006 on the use of labor from the new EU countries among all firms in the construction business, five industries, hotels and restaurants and cleaning services. The sample consists of firms that emply Eastern European labor, as well as a control group of non-users who responded to a shorter survey.