Job-to-job mobility
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- According to the labour force survey of 2003, 8.2% of the EU’s total employed labour force had moved to another job after one year (yearly job-to-job mobility). But there are marked differences across Europe – in Denmark and the UK yearly job-to-job mobility is around 13%, while in Sweden and Greece it is around 5%. As far as job tenure is concerned, in 9 Member States, 40% of the working population has been with the same employer for over 10 years, the overall EU average being around 38 %. (Source: Eurostat EU Labour Force Survey 2004)
- Workers in the EU stay in the same job for an average of 10.6 years, compared to 6.7 years in the US.
(Source: Centre for European Policy Studies, A New European Agenda for Labour Mobility, April 2004).
Source: http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/workersmobility2006/fact_figures_en.htm