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Are immigrants from the new EU member states a threat to the Western welfare state? Do they take jobs away from the natives? And will the source countries suffer from severe brain drain or demographic instability? In a timely and unprecedented contribution, this book integrates what is known about post-enlargement migration and its effects on EU labor markets. Based on rigorous analysis and hard data, it makes a convincing case that there is no evidence that the post-enlargement labor migrants would on aggregate displace native workers or lower their wages, or that they would be more dependent on welfare. While brain drain may be a concern in the source countries, the anticipated brain circulation between EU member states may in fact help to solve their demographic and economic problems, and improve the allocative efficiency in the EU. The lesson is clear: free migration is a solution rather than a foe for labor market woes and cash-strapped social security systems in the EU.

Economics/Management Science. --- Labor Economics. --- European Integration. --- Social Policy. --- Economics. --- Europe --- Labor economics. --- Social policy. --- Economie politique --- Economie du travail --- Politique sociale --- Economic policy. --- #SBIB:314H270 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A320 --- 312.1 --- 332.602.2 --- 332.691 --- 334.151.54 --- EEC / European Union - EU -Europese Unie - Union Européenne - UE --- EEU / Central & Eastern Europe --- Labor market --- -Migration, Internal --- -Foreign workers --- -Labor mobility --- -331.12094 --- Mobility, Labor --- Migration, Internal --- Labor supply --- Labor turnover --- Alien labor --- Aliens --- Foreign labor --- Guest workers --- Guestworkers --- Immigrant labor --- Immigrant workers --- Migrant labor (Foreign workers) --- Migrant workers (Foreign workers) --- Employees --- Internal migration --- Mobility --- Population geography --- Internal migrants --- Market, Labor --- Supply and demand for labor --- Markets --- Demografie en economische interrelaties: algemeen --- Arbeidssociologie: morfologie van de arbeidsmarkt --- Immigratie. --- Buitenlandse arbeidskrachten. --- Evolutie van de arbeidsmarkt. --- Werkgelegenheid en werkloosheid in de Europese Gemeenschappen. --- Economic aspects --- -Employment --- Supply and demand --- European Union countries --- -EU countries --- Euroland --- Emigration and immigration --- -Economic aspects --- -European Union countries --- -Emigration and immigration --- Immigratie --- Buitenlandse arbeidskrachten --- Evolutie van de arbeidsmarkt --- Werkgelegenheid en werkloosheid in de Europese Gemeenschappen --- Noncitizen labor --- Noncitizens