DEMANDS OF THE LABOUR MARKET IN THE NETHERLANDS AND THE EU BLUE CARD: LIMITATIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES

An ageing society, rapid technological developments combined with an increasing demand for (highly) skilled workers places the EU for great challenges. To implement and bring the EU Blue Card into practice was a means to partly alleviate the demand at least for the highly skilled labour and a first step to increase the attractiveness of the EU labour market. However, current researches show that that the impact of the Blue Card is limited. There is a variety of conditions set by the Member States (MS) which diminishes a user friendly procedure for highly skilled migrant workers. Furthermore, M... Mehr ...