Union (EU), enacted in 2002, as an exogenous shock to immigration. The first approach uses the AFMP reform within an …, distinguishing between regions with historically high, medium, and low immigration from EU-15 countries. The analysis based on data …This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland …

This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …

-Border Co-operation programmes to support Slovakia in meeting the Copenhagen criteria in order to facilitate its accession to …

Slovakia) and to consider to what extent they have contributed to a wider social inclusion agenda. The period covered by the …

companies. However, formation and survival rates of SME are still well below the EU average and as such there are a number of …

This ex post evaluation addresses the EU/EC’s pre-accession assistance provided to the twelve countries that acceded to … the European Union as part of the ‘fifth wave’ of EU enlargement, i.e. Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia …, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia on 01/05/2004, and Bulgaria and Romania on 01/01/2007. It marked an …

dissemination of statistics in key areas (comparable with EU standards), and transfer of know-how and integration into the European … Slovakia) and Bulgaria and Romania. …