While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better … including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 … and EU10 countries are analysed using individual data on migration intentions. In addition, perceptions about the size of …

Agreements (FTAs) on trade flows. In this paper we focus on FTAs (also called European agreements) between the European Union (EU … with the EU was signed exceeded trade growth of the control group of countries which did not become members …

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 48 per cent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … 23 to 32 per cent in the EU and 19 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic stabilizers …

the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality …

The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU … importance in the western EU member states, both immigrant status and citizenship matter in the eastern EU member states, their … the relationships between being non-citizen and labor market outcomes that we find in the eastern EU member states …