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The immigration into the European Union is the main socio-cultural process of the last decade and factor influencing many important areas of EU life as security, labour market, political stability and a relationship among member countries, strategic priorities, quality of life and more. The immigration is generally classified as legal and illegal, war refuge, and economic. The most of immigrants are considered as economic applying for asylum in the most welfare western countries as Germany, Sweden, and the UK. The main question is, what the principal cause of accelerated immigration into specific countries of EU is. Presented paper concerns and discovers cause and effect relations between selected indicators of labour market and EU immigration as an important contemporary international phenomenon. The migration is described as asylum applicants in selected countries - annual aggregated data. The presumption of the research is that the major migration motivations are some from selected monitored indicators particularly average annual wage, labour productivity index and expenditure on social protection per inhabitant. The paper is focused on the evaluation of mentioned indicators in comparison to EU countries. The aim of the paper is to identify certain relations and their connections as reasons of motivation. Data obtained from Eurostat, CSO, and OECD are evaluated by descriptive statistics and statistical analysis as Spearman correlation indices using IBM SPSS statistical software. Results will be interpreted and discussed.