(EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

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 …

income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the US. In the case of an unemployment shock 48 per cent of the shock are … absorbed in the EU, compared to 34 per cent in the US. This cushioning of disposable income leads to a demand stabilization of … 23 to 32 per cent in the EU and 19 per cent in the US. There is large heterogeneity within the EU. Automatic stabilizers …

the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality …

The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU … importance in the western EU member states, both immigrant status and citizenship matter in the eastern EU member states, their … the relationships between being non-citizen and labor market outcomes that we find in the eastern EU member states …