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 … out the difficulties that restrictions on the free movement of workers bring about. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU …

The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …

-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states …. Rather, there appear to have been positive effects on EU's productivity. The sending countries face some risks of losing … from brain gain and brain circulation in an enlarged EU. For the migrants the benefits in terms of better career prospects …

investigations on the effects of immigration from new EU member states and Eastern Partnership countries on the economies of old EU … EU member states on old member states' GDP, GDP per capita, and employment rate and a negative effect on output per …‐to‐labor ratio. These results mark an economic success of the EU enlargements and EU's free movement of workers. …