TRANSITION FROM EDUCATION TO EMPLOYMENT: CREATING MEANINGFUL MULTILINGUALISM IN THE EUROPEAN LABOUR MARKET WITH ADVANCED ICT

摘要

Although free movement of labour in Europe is an economic, not a social concept, it creates many problems of a social nature: transfer of pensions and social benefits, entitlements of migrant workers to unemployment, social security and other benefits, family issues of education, housing, and so on. These social issues came to be dealt with not as independent social concerns, but under the rubric of economic free movement of labour. This created a tension in the balance between the economic and the social perceptions of free movement of workers. Policy initiatives, legislative provisions and court decisions were concerned with economic and not social consequences - that is, with possible restraints on free movement and not with the social implications of free movement of workers.