the actual implementation of this system would be politically problematic. -- EU enlargement ; migration ; welfare state …

explore this idea across the US and EU by estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those … small in the US, the UK and most central and northern EU countries, and becomes sizeable in Ireland, France and southern EU …

This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross …

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 …

Living Conditions (EU-SILC) of 2006. In general, wives and husbands, when married, have the same characteristics but wives …

who have been trained in Europe could set a new course. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU Eastern enlargement ; free …

This paper analyses the dynamic structure of individual earnings across 14 EU countries over the period 1994-2001 using … relevant in the context of the changes that took place in the EU labour market policy framework after 1995 under the incidence …

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 …

. Considerable cross-country differences are observed across the EU regarding both the level and the structure of earnings inequality …

which all EU member states introduce free movement of workers simultaneously in 2011. The results suggest that the overall … level of migration from the East will amount to around 1 per cent of the EU15 population within a decade after enlargement …