migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …

to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European "blue card" initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …

in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …

. 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 …

analysis. In traditional migration theories, especially in human capital models, the decision to migrate is based upon … comparison of expected future incomes in the sending and the receiving countries adjusted for the cost of migration. By contrast …, the new economics of labour migration suggests that the migration decision is made jointly by the migrant and his family …

differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …