states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …

add migration variables to robust determinants of growth and find positive and significant relationships between migrants … respect to data issues, causality and selection effects are discussed which give scope for further research. …

migrants. Despite the potential for increased migration to fill skill gaps, immigration policies and attitudes to immigrants …

actual migration flows following the enlargements against the pre-enlargement expectations and perceptions. We then review … countries’ perspective the risks of out-migration lie in skill shortages in affected occupations or sectors as well as the …

This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … for increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow …

, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …

Force Survey and conducting our own statistical analysis of selectivity into migration, we study whether and how migration … of migration flows in terms of the destinations, gender, age, educational attainment and occupation, reflecting changing …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …

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 … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …