Geographical mobility

• Approximately 1.5% of EU-25 citizens live and work in a different Member State from their country of origin – a proportion that has hardly changed for the last 30 years. (Source: Eurostat).
• Every year on average 7.2% of EU citizens change their place of residence, of which 15% refer to a change in job as the main reason for the move. This compares to 16.2% of US citizens moving home each year, 17% for occupational reasons.

(Source: ‘Labour markets in the 21 st Century’, a joint US & EU conference, US Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs, September 2002)