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Numéro spécial de la revue International Journal of ManpowerLabour market flexibility as an issue of competitiveness of a country has become even more important in the context of recent economic recession and thus the concept must be linked with spatial mobility. Job related commuting is the most effective way for overcoming a jobs-people mismatch, especially since migration literature presents growing evidence not only of decreased intensity of permanent migrations, but also increased daily mobility. Emigration and return migration are very important in understanding labour market adjustments for changing macroeconomic conditions (as happened in Baltic countries and Ireland during recent recession or in Greece due to its weak economic outlook).Both labour market flexibility and labour mobility are directly influenced by educational settings. It is well established in the literature that educated migrants are not crowding out domestic labour, on the contrary, they have a value added effect on the domestic labour market (Wadhwa et al., 2008). It is also known that a more educated workforce is more open to lifelong learning (Jenkins et al., 2002; OECD, 2001). Through new knowledge and skills the labour force becomes more flexible and more open for occupational mobility. If people work abroad they increase not only the wellbeing of their families (through remittances), but also their human capital by acquiring new knowledge and skills.The purpose of the special issue is to cover some research caps in the existing literature. For example, there is still little research on interactions between education settings and labour market flexibility (one exception is Eichhorst et al 2009); between spatial mobility and labour market flexibility, despite the fact that some authors (e.g. Monastiriotis, 2005; Paas and Eamets, 2007) find that labour mobility is an essential part of labour market flexibility. (...)Lire la suite : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/authors/writing/calls.htm?id=4558Deadline: 2 septembre 2013