use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration ows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period 2002 …-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration ows to labor … would have been worse off after the enlargement. We study even further the interaction effects between trade and migration …

factor mobility (such as capital). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may … nullify the'race to the bottom' hypothesis. Labor migration is governed not only by net-of-tax factor rewards, but rather … importantly also by the benefits that the welfare state provides. The paper analyzes fiscal competition with and without migration …

migration to those countries with the highest levels of welfare benefits. The paper concludes that migration is limited by the … incentives. On the other hand, migration is attractive for those working in the informal sector of host countries …

their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …