variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The …

foreign workers, as well as attracting entrepreneurs and investors in the EU single market, are the three principal channels …

migration in June 2015 This paper examines the impact of the free flow of migrants within the EU on the prospects of labour … data from the EU Labour Force Survey, to examine the extent to which the socio-economic and job characteristics suggest … that EU migrants and third country migrants provide a similar labour input. Aggregate migrant flows, however, are driven by …

retaining qualified migrants. It finds that in EU countries there are several different forms of barriers to labour migration …, each of which is affected differently by EU legislation. It then specifically focuses on the Student, Researchers and EU … Blue Card Directives, studying their effects on the real policy framework in the EU countries affected, in terms of …

the Blue Card Directive – on migration flows from third countries to the EU. Using a difference-in-difference empirical … strategy and data from the EU-LFS and Eurostat database on work permits to non-EU workers, it estimates the effect of each … experience an increase in the inflow of non-EU high skilled workers after the adoption of the Blue Card Directive; however, this …