.... Eastern Europe EU enlargement Immigration Labour market outcomes Over a very short time, Eastern European immigrants have become one of the largest immigrant groups in the UK labour market. Recent estimates from the Office of National Statistics (2011) show that in Q12002, immigrants from EU8...

..., especially following EU enlargement in 2004. The analysis particularly focuses on the types of benefits that immigrants tend to claim, as well as examining differences by area of origin. It also examines the factors that determine social assistance benefit claims, including an investigation of the impact...