L'hétérogénéité sociale de l'Union européenne après l'élargissement et la question des délocalisations

This paper studies the effects of the last enlargement of eu on European social heterogeneity, and examines the size of outsourcing to ceecs in relation with national social systems. We use principal component factor analysis and hierarchical classification to represent numerous relations between socio-economic indicators in eu 15 and ceecs. The last enlargement doesn?t induce a new social model at the East but a more polarization of the national social characteristics in eu 25. About the outsourcing process and the location of foreign direct investment, the empiric analysis doesn?t establish the role of dumping social in ceecs during the pre-adhesion phase, in 90?. Classification JEL : F2, J5, P5