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"This chapter discusses migrant labour market integration policies and services in the Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Finland, Italy, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, and thus we present a wide variety of different national contexts. In addition, it also details EU-specific policies and programmes.

The empirical work underpinning this chapter emanates from two main research tasks: policy discourse analysis; and assessment of existing policies and their outcomes. A policy discourse analysis was conducted across the selected countries to identify and analyse how issues of labour market integration are discussed by policymakers and policy actors. By analysing the findings of the discourse analysis together with the assessment of policies, which forms the second part of chapter, the consistency between policy rhetoric and policy goals is evaluated. The second part of the chapter consists of a policy assessment in which the barriers to labour market integration and existing policies to remedy them are identified, categorised and evaluated. This was performed using a meta-analysis of the existing national literatures, and interviews with policy experts, implementers and beneficiaries of labour market integration policies."

"Policy recommendations :
• The regulatory regime pertaining to posted workers resolves the problem of continuity of coverage and contributions for migrant construction workers by situating social insurance in the sending country. This results, de facto, in a system that is complex, multi jurisdictional and idiosyncratic, incentivising employers to avoid contributions. The regime should be restructured via EU legislation to be more self-enforcing, so that workers are no longer de facto obliged to understand and enforce the rules themselves.
• There should be simple, uniform and anonymous procedures to enable mobile construction workers to check required and realised social insurance contributions, and to report possible employer violations throughout the EU.
• Unions should have access to information on the status of mobile construction workers' social insurance conditions to improve their ability to represent this group. This could help to address the enforcement gap.
• Unions should explicitly advocate for ensuring that mobile workers have practical access to social insurance, both because this positions them as mobile worker advocates in areas that overlap with labour rights, but also because a lack of social insurance protection can drive down mobile workers' wages and conditions."