The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later … reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces turns out to be effici e nt, migration should not be artificially …

economic convergence. National welfare states will be threatened by the free migration of people in Europe. The race to the …The forces of the market and systems competition bring about economic and social convergence in Europe. There is no … need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

the wage competition from immigrants. It shows that fixing social replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment … replacement program does not avoid the distortions in labor migration, the (temporary) exclusion of migrants from a national wage … subsidy program makes it possible to reach the first best migration pattern despite the preservation of the welfare state …

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

estimate the migration potential after EU enlargement, econometric-based simulation models are used for the four most heavily …