Limitations placed on the movement of labor are seen as major impediments to the growth both of trade in services and … trade liberalization in services, made a slightly below-the-EU-average offer on the free movement of natural persons (Market … Market, while at the same time obtaining the support for these policies from the two domestic societal actors - the trade …

This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform …-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 enlargement. We consider two baseline policy scenarios, with and without accession of … sending countries to the EU. Our results show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but …

Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If … so, one should find a strong relationship between regional unemployment and average wages on the one hand, and migration … flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter …

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

This study evaluates potential migration flows to the European Union from its Eastern neighbors and Croatia. We perform … out-of-sample forecasts to time series cross-sectional data about post-enlargement migration flows following the EU's 2004 … show that migration flows are driven by migration costs and economic conditions, but the largest effects accrue to policy …

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 …

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 …

Hungary. The survey was designed to identify migration and cross-border commuting intentions in these four countries and is … estimating migrants' reservation wages after migration. The theoretical and empirical models in this paper show that …

The extant literature has focused on migration's consequences for the receiving countries. In this paper, we ask a … methodology combining statistical matching with difference-in-differences, we assess migration's effects on the well-being of …, migration enhances subjective well-being and satisfaction with freedom. The results are robust to sensitivity checks …

This paper examines migration trends in the European Union since the enlargements of 2004-2007, which brought 100 … migration trends and show how European integration depleted the labor force in new member countries. Several of them lost 10% of … their population since 2006, most of it via negative net migration. In 2019, 18% of Romanians, 14% of Lithuanians, 13 …