Tackling Emigration in EU Member States - The Welfare Dimension
benefits for certain groups, in order to counteract the development. On a theoretical level, emigration has received scant attention as a variable in theories of EU (dis-) integration and the functioning of [...] Heterogeneity in economic development among countries is a major cause for labour migration. In the European Union, rounds of Eastern enlargement have fundamentally increased these differences, and with [...] of workforce. An example is the migration from Ukraine to Poland. Socially, some regions have lost a significant amount of their population, with consequences especially for rural areas and villages. For