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EU Enlargement and Migration: Assessing the Macroeconomic Impacts
Author(s) -
BARRELL RAY,
FITZGERALD JOHN,
RILEY REBECCA
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
jcms: journal of common market studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.54
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 1468-5965
pISSN - 0021-9886
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5965.2009.02056.x
Subject(s) - resizing , member states , european union , irregular migration , international economics , political science , geography , development economics , international trade , economic geography , economics
Enlargement of the European Union in May 2004 was followed by an increase in migration from the poorest of the central and eastern European New Member States (NMS) to other Member States. We consider the macroeconomic impacts of these migration flows across Europe, highlighting impacts in receiving and sending countries.