The eastern enlargements of the European Union (EU) and the extension of the free movement of workers to the new member … states' citizens, the need for adjustment became ever more important during the Great Recession, which affected EU member … states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional …

competitiveness and intra-EU imbalances. But how to measure properly competitiveness, beyond price or cost competitiveness, remains an … open methodological issue; and what is the resilience of producers located in the EU to the competition of emerging … on an econometric shift-share decomposition and we consider the EU-27 as an integrated economy, excluding intra-EU trade …

(geographical and sectoral) and a pure performance effect. We regard the EU-27 as an integrated economy, excluding intra-EU trade … of world trade. Since 1995 the EU-27 withstood the competition from emerging countries better than the United States and … Japan. The EU market shares for high-technology products, as well as in the upper price range of the market, proved …