In this paper, we assess the impact of immigration and unemployment for a sample of 15 EU countries between 1997 and … immigration on domestic unemployment in the short and in the long run. In the long run, immigration is found to reduce … unemployment in all peripheral-countries. In core countries, we find no long-run impact of immigration on unemployment due to …

accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …

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 …