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 …

on gravity modeling and estimation for international trade and migration and on domestic firm-level labor market effects … of internationalization. Chapter 2 structurally estimates a micro-founded gravity equation for migration flows. For a … migration frictions. Chapter 3 asks how the welfare quantification of trade liberalization changes if one allows workers to be …

children themselves. In addition, this relationship is the stronger, the later in life migration occurred. …

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the importance of social class, migration background and command of national … empirical results imply that for students with a migration background a key for catching up is the language spoken at home. We …

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 …