The paper analyses the main characteristics of the immigrant flows deriving from the two subsequent rounds of Eastern EU Enlargement in the UK and Italy. Using data from the National Labour Force Surveys, immigrants' employment outcomes and their economic specialisation across sector of...

The present work offers a detailed description of the recent European and Italian migration experience. In the last 150 years, Northern Europe first, and Southern European countries later on experienced the transition from emigration to immigration countries, and host today large shares of...