underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot … failure. -- EU enlargement ; international migration ; wages ; employment …

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could … benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale …

variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are associated … with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations …

. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

that at least skilled immigration promotes economic equality in the host country under standard conditions. The context is …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … immigration from countries that were hit by the crisis, although the annual net flows are still too small to significantly reduce …

but changed the composition of the immigrants, (iii) any negative effects in the labour market on wages or employment are …