. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …

In this paper we introduce the notion of herd effects or information cascades into models of migration …

The short- and longer-term regional consequences of migration for European aggregate supply are examined in a simple … with free migration is always associated with an efficiency loss and might lead to the `Mezzogiorno syndrome' in the East. …

Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage - and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage - overall migration – inbound …

central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … effect in facilitating labour market adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and … survey data on past and prospective migration and the willingness to move, I find that economic factosr play little role in …