Elsner, Benjamin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition … the restrictions on the German labor market, and that net flows decreased to zero at the outset of the recession. The … Germans became narrower over time. Almost 10 years after EU enlargement, we re-assess the transitional arrangements, and argue …