ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the United Kingdom (UK) labour market showed signs of saturation from the crisis year of 2008, while Ireland experienced a radical reversal of migration trends during the crisis. It discusses the impact of post-enlargement migration on wages and wage setting in four destination countries which have different wage-setting models and took different approaches to the free movement of labour after 2004. The chapter focuses on one of the biggest challenges facing intra-European Union (EU) labour mobility in recent years. It utilizes the quantitative data sources, European and national Labour Force Surveys, the WageIndicator data and the International Adult Literacy Survey. The chapter estimates the scale of return migration to Poland and compares the socio-demographic structure of return migrants to the structure of non-returning emigrants.
