Who's most likely to have unstable and short-term work in the EU?

Migrants from outside the EU who are living and working in the bloc appear to have a harder time finding stable, long-term employment compared to the native EU population.

The latest Eurostat figures show that non-EU citizens aged 20 to 64 living in one of the 27 member states had the highest prevalence of temporary contracts and part-time employment over the past decade, while nationals had the lowest.

Experts put this down to a number of factors, including linguistic hurdles, cultural differences and administrative burdens.

"Many non-EU citizens face additional barriers in accessing stable, permanent jobs, including language barriers, non-recognition of qualifications, more limited professional networks, discrimination, and immigration-related restrictions," Joanna Hofman, director of research and evaluation employment, welfare and skills at market research company Ipsos, told Europe in Motion.

"As a result, they are more likely to enter the labour market through more precarious forms of employment," she said.