While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better … understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings … including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 …

This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy implications and their … empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory beginning with a general encompassing model of migration … the wage gap between an advanced and a backward region to reduce the rate of migration, follows from the standard model …

roles ‘other people’ play in influencing an individual’s potential migration decision. In analysing the influence of others … on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …

. 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 …