The effects of labour migration within the scope of free movement on EU labour markets: The case study of UK

Labour migration is one of the most debated political subjects within the EU. The main reason for this is the fact that labour migration is regarded as a most effective solution for demographic challenge of Europe, namely population decline and ageing, and labour shortage. Within this context, the labour migration from newly accepted eight members from Eastern and Central Europe to the Western Europe can be seen as an opportunity to solve aforementioned challenges.As known, eight states from Eastern and Central Europe (the Czech Republic; Estonia; Hungary; Latvia; Lithuania; Poland; Slovakia; and Slovenia) have been accepted to the EU in 2004. In contrast to other member countries, together with Ireland and Sweden, the UK Government allowed the nationals of these countries full access to its labour market. The aim of the thesis is to assess the effects of labour migration from aforementioned countries on the UK? employment rates and wages within the labour market.The thesis is to design to assess whether there is a meaningful correlation between labour migration to the UK and local labour markets results. With this aim, specifications of labour migration from A-8 countries to the UK such as education level, age and number of migrant have obtained from literature study and national statistics institutions of the UK. In the thesis, the figures obtained from the institutions have been entered to the SPSS computer programme within the quarterly periods and it is aimed to reach the result by multivariate analysis method of correlation and regression method.