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Calendini, Jean-Baptiste; Storaï, Christophe --- "Vocational qualifications and the European labour market: the challenges and the prospects" [2002] ELECD 15; in Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel (eds), "The Economics of Harmonizing European Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002)

Book Title: The Economics of Harmonizing European Law

Editor(s): Marciano, Alain; Josselin, Jean-Michel

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781840646085

Section: Chapter 8

Section Title: Vocational qualifications and the European labour market: the challenges and the prospects

Author(s): Calendini, Jean-Baptiste; Storaï, Christophe

Number of pages: 15

Extract:

8. Vocational qualifications and the
European labour market:
the challenges and the prospects
Jean-Baptiste Calendini and Christophe Storaï

Granting the citizens of the member states of the European Union the personal
right of free circulation and free settlement is a characteristic feature of the
process of construction of the European Community such as it was instituted by
the Treaty of Rome signed on 25 May 1957. Therefore, recognition of degrees
and qualifications is an essential aspect that guarantees the use of that basic
right. Even though significant progress has been made in this sphere, there are
still a number of dissuasive and often invisible barriers which contribute
towards the fragmentation of the European area (Pertek, 1998). In connection
with that idea, it would seem judicious to contemplate a more general problem
focused on the potential emergence of a vast European labour market as a result
of the establishment of the Single Market for goods, services, capital and
currency. In addition to the questions one might ask concerning occupational
mobility inside Europe, another more fundamental question relating to the insti-
tutions and the organization of the employment market in Europe arises: is it
possible and desirable to think of a convergence, if not a harmonization, of the
employment markets in the member countries of the European Union?
The purpose of this chapter is to prepare the ground for an answer to that
question1 while identifying the multidimensional constraints of that potential
process. For instance, during the 1980s, the governments of ...