Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...

Die vorliegende Arbeit vergleicht die Entwicklung des Außenhandels zwischen zwei Ländergruppen : auf der einen Seite Polen, die Tschechische Republik und Ungarn sowie auf der anderen Seite Portugal, Spanien und Griechenland. Die Autoren erkennen zahlreiche Parallelen in der...