Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65933 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2012-22
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries (EU8) to the European Union has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to the Western member states (EU15). Only three countries, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK, did not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern Europe. Did the elimination of barrier to immigration have an impact on the quality of immigrants arriving to the UK? Using EU15 immigrants as a control group, we find systematic differences between EU8 immigrants arrived before and after the enlargement. The elimination of barriers to immigration seems to have changed the quantity and quality of EU8 immigrants to the UK.
Subjects: 
EU enlargement
East-West migration
UK labour market
self-selection
JEL: 
F22
J30
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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