Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects …. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … well as sending countries in three broader areas: labour markets, welfare systems, and growth and competitiveness. Our …