The 2004 reunification of Eastern and Western Europe and the subsequent economic crisis caused a surge in intra-European labour mobility and a profound shift in preceding patterns of migration in Europe. While previous decades of European integration brought very modest cross-border flows of...

The EU Directive on Free Movement of 2004 extended free movement within the EU to Union citizens who are inactive and gave them access to the welfare benefits of host countries. The paper examines the extent to which these measures provoke migration to those countries with the highest levels of...

In Europe, the competence for social security and the right to levy income tax lie with the country of employment in cross-border matters. This has two disadvantages. First, the Employment Principle distorts active persons' choice of place of work. Second, the employment-based regulation of...

Im Mai 2011 stellt Deutschland als eines der letzten EU-Länder gegenüber den acht im Jahre 2004 beigetretenen ost- und mitteleuropäischen EU-Ländern die volle Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit her. Es ist von hohem Interesse, welche Migrationswirkungen der damit verbundene Verlust von...