We offer an empirical, econometric analysis of the impact of migration on the EU 27's NUTS-2 regions in the period 2000 …-2007. While our results indicate that migration had no statistical impact on regional unemployment in the EU it had a significant … Europe practically all have below-average GDP, migration seems to induce divergence rather than convergence. …

observable factors. The reasons for this are primarily lower tax payments of migrant households. Selective migration and sound … effective means to avoid scal burdens of migration. …

We use new migration modelling and projection techniques in order to quantify the effect of migration in the context of … ageing societies in Europe over the forthcoming decades. Using new empirical results, data and projections of migration flows …

in the impact of social capital on migration decisions of different age groups. …

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states … than in EU15 member states. Also in contrast to the EU15 member states migration has fallen in candidate countries and new … member states. This casts doubt on the viability of migration as an adjustment mechanism. Estimating place to place models of …