; EU enlargement ; wages ; international migration ; remittances …

This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …-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 …

For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is … known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the … relationship between migration and support for EU accession in the Western Balkans. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor …

Romanian migration is today one of the biggest, complex, and dynamic migration to Western Europe. This paper is a … discusses its far-reaching consequences. It first presents and characterizes the Romanian migration through the different phases … Romanian migration addressing the remitting behavior and its development over the past years. The issue of return migration is …

states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …

European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while …, based on a computable general equilibrium model, we evaluate whether migration to "rigid labour markets" a-la European … migration are, at a GDP gain of 0.2-0.3% at a migration of 1% of the labour force, but that natives in the receiving countries …

This study contributes to the literature on destination‐country consequences of international migration with … member states over the years 1995‐2010. Using a rich international migration dataset and an empirical model accounting for … the endogeneity of migration flows we find positive and significant effects of post‐enlargement migration flows from new …

affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii) foreign direct investment, and iii) migration. A main conclusion of the … economic incentives to migration are bound to be present well beyond the date of accession. We estimate the migration potential …-term equilibrium migration potential, as well as the speed of adjustment at which the potential takes place. Our findings suggest that …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …