Eastern enlargement of the EU promises gains, but also imposes fiscal costs on incumbent countries. A sensitive issue concerns immigration, jobs and wages. We address these issues in a general equilibrium framework, both analytically and through numerical simulations. Analytical results identify...

Based on a newly constructed multi-country input-output table including all European countries, we estimate the economic effects of the EU accession countries entering the "Stabilisation and Association Agreement" (SAA) with the EU and the potential effects of joining the European Single Market...