Europe’s demand for workers is growing across a wide range of skill levels, with more than three-quarters of small- and medium-sized enterprises struggling to find workers with the right skills. Meeting these labour needs will be essential to sustaining economic growth and competitiveness yet will prove even more challenging as workforces shrink and the digital and green transitions reshape which skills are most valued. At the same time, countries worldwide are competing to attract talent in critical sectors such as health care and construction, making it more important than ever that strategies to attract workers are designed to benefit both migrant-receiving and sending countries. 

To ensure that labour migration works for everyone involved, the European Union has promoted a ‘quadruple win’ approach, aiming to benefit employers, workers, and sending and receiving countries. In addition to targeted mobility partnerships with sending countries, European governments are expressing a broader interest in the lessons from existing labour migration corridors to expand opportunities for partnerships that combine support for the movement of talent with investments in local skills development. 

This webinar will feature discussion of a new study by the Migration Policy Institute and MPI Europe, commissioned by the European Commission, which examines best practices for designing and managing labour migration corridors between EU Member States and partner countries. Experts will discuss findings from the research, which examines the Bangladesh-Portugal, India-Germany, Peru-Italy, Senegal-Spain, and Vietnam-Hungary corridors and offers insights on how to connect employers and workers, promote skills development, protect migrant workers, and maximise benefits for countries of origin and destination alike.