places. This paper seeks to understand the labor market implications of allowing free migration across borders, with … particular reference to the EU. The aim is to quantify the migration flows associated with EU enlargement, and to analyze the …

that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from …

of migration. We argue that the differences between the U.S. and the EU - the degree of coordination among the member …

labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom" hypothesis. Labor migration is governed by net-of-tax factor … into account the effect of taxes and migration on factor rewards and the fiscal burden imposed by migration on the decisive … state member state), with tax financed benefits which is able to control the volume and the skill-composition of migration …

costly and features households of different skills and nationalities facing costly forward-looking relocation decisions. We … use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration flows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period … 2002-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration flows to …