In den Verhandlungen zur EU-Osterweiterung stehen im ersten Halbjahr 2001 die Regelung zur Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit … auf der Tagesordnung. Mittlerweile liegen mehrere Schätzungen des Zuwanderungspotentials vor, das nach der EU … erster Linie die bestehenden ökonomischen und rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen für Wanderungen innerhalb einer erweiterten EU …

Starting on 1st of May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined …

This chapter offers a framework to analyse the impact of EU membership on economic ("means"), institutional ("ways …") and social ("ends") convergence of EU11 countries to the frontier. It identifies the channels through which this impact … works: trade, investment, finance, migration and institutions. Using this framework, the analysis finds that EU membership …

Starting on 1 May 2004, 11 countries in Central-Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and in the Baltics (EU11) joined the … European Union (EU) in three consecutive waves. Half a generation later, and a full generation after the start of transition in …

This chapter looks into the impact of EU membership on the carbon intensity of EU11 economies since joining the EU. EU … membership boosted foreign trade and FDI, leading to a rapid re-industrialization of EU11 and making them the fastest converging … group of upper-middle-income countries in the world. Nevertheless, EU11 economies maintained their previously established …

1. Introduction -- 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a … -- 4. Regional dynamics in EU11 -- 5. How the European Union made Poland European Again -- 6. Transformation of the … financing and foreign trade model of the Hungarian economy after EU accession -- 7. Macroeconomic trends in the Baltic States …

1.Introduction -- 2.The economic impact of Single Market membership on the EU enlargement countries -- 3. FDI as force … of convergence in the CESEE countries -- 4.The impact of EU cohesion funds on macroeconomic development in the Visegrad … countries after the 2008-2009 financial crisis -- 5. The impact of the EU Cohesion policy spending: a model-based assessment …