Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34171 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2519
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper briefly reviews the existing literature on potential migration into the enlarged European Union, reconciles the results with recent evidence and presents an additional migration scenario. The estimation procedure accounts for both sending and receiving countries' unobserved heterogeneity, and in the simulations a counterfactual scenario is calculated, in which all EU member states introduce free movement of workers simultaneously in 2011. The results suggest that the overall level of migration from the East will amount to around 1 per cent of the EU15 population within a decade after enlargement, and that the legal introduction of free movement of workers will not increase immigration significantly. These findings are compared both with the previous literature and emerging evidence.
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Working Paper

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