This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …

of social assistance is investigated. For this purpose, a scheme of classification suitable for grouping the EU15 schemes … payments are calculated for five selected EU systems and the linkage of their distributive impacts to the degree of …