Barriers to free movement due to mismatches of cross border tax and social security instruments

The rules for coordinating tax and social security have important differences, and this may be disadvantageous for mobile workers, in particular for posted workers. In this article the differences are analysed and the effects of the rules are shown. The article concludes by giving some suggestions for solving the problems

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