be hard to resist the eventual extension of existing EU mechanisms of income redistribution--a transfer union. We propose … an alternative strategy based on a relaxed stability pact, further strictures against central EU borrowing, labor market …

coefficients show that immigration policies balancing the number of high-skilled and low-skilled immigrants from outside the EU …

The paper models the host country stylistically as a member of the core of an economic union (i.e., a core EU welfare …. The source country is modeled as an accession country to an economic union (i.e., through the EU enlargement treaty), with …

on source-host, OECD-EU country pairs in the year 2000. The identification strategy is to use the decomposition the … source-host country pairs into two groups: one group, a "free migration" group, source-host country pairs within the EU, and … another group, "policy-controlled migration" group, the pairs from non-EU countries into the EU. We find evidence in support …

among the EU 15 and EU 10 in the enlarged European Union, as of 2004. We also demonstrate that the notion that the mere …

the bottom. This behavior has been perhaps most pronounced in the EU-15 following the single market act of 1992. The 2004 … enlargement of the EU with 10 new entrants put a strong downward pressure on capital income taxation for the EU-15 countries. Tax …