-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of immigration and the quality of the new immigrants. We focus on … the UK and combine the British and the European Labour Force Surveys to analyse whether immigration to the UK has changed …

not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern Europe. Did the elimination of barrier to immigration have an impact … between EU8 immigrants arrived before and after the enlargement. The elimination of barriers to immigration seems to have …

EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … outcomes in Germany. We finda transitory negative wage effect among German nationals, particularly at the bottom ofthe wage …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us … immigration from countries that were hit by the crisis, although the annual net flows are still too small to significantly reduce …

the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

Arbeitsmärkte und die öffentlichen Finanzen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Zur Abschä t - zung des Migrationspotentials nach der …The goal of this study is to examine the consequences of EU enlargement and the free movement of labour on Germany. To …

This paper investigates the labour market effects of migration-related supply shocks on labour market. Immigration has … that the EU is facing today, it still lacks the common immigration policy that would address this issues. In such a … situation, an economically motivated common immigration policy at the European level can result in welfare improvements …