propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …

This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …

in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to … European Union. Regression results are provided for Western Germany, France, and Italy. It is shown that labour mobility is … highest in Germany, followed by France, and Italy. However, even in Germany, the accommodation of a shock to unemployment by …

This paper examines the determinants of gross labour flows in a context where modeling the migration decision as a wage …

distribution within countries, on the determinants of remittances at a micro-level, or on the effects of migration and remittances …