Combining both academic and practitioner perspectives, this book provides authoritative insights into the integration of European labour markets against the background of increasing international labour mobility

Der mit dem sog. Vertrag von Rom vor 40 Jahren initiierte Prozeß der wirtschaftlichen und politischen Integration Europas zeichnet sich durch eine Tendenz zur Selbstverstärkung aus. Dies gilt sowohl für den Grad der Intensität des Integrationsprozesses als auch für die geographische...

Die Arbeitsmarktsoziologie beschäftigt sich mit den sozialen Determinanten bei der Erklärung von Arbeitsmarktprozessen. Dies beinhaltet u. a. den Zusammenhang zwischen Bildung und der Positionierung auf dem Arbeitsmarkt, die Risiken von Arbeitslosigkeit, die Rolle der Familie für...

1. Introduction -- 2. Convergence of the EU member states in Central-Eastern and South Eastern Europe (EU11): a framework for convergence inside a close regional cooperation -- 3. Towards a new growth model in CESEE: three challenges ahead -- 4. Regional dynamics in EU11 -- 5. How the European...

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...

This volume, the fifth instalment of the classic Report on the European Union series, offers at once an economic and intellectual historical perspective on the creation of the euro and its 20 first years, a comprehensive review of the current and future challenges of the euro area, including a...

"This book addresses recent trends in regional integration projects and the strides that such projects are making on the road toward globalization, focusing on a range of economic projects, emerging supranational units, and possible implications for future trends"--Provided by publisher.

Is life getting better? Are our societies making progress? Indeed, what does “progress” mean to the world’s citizens? For a good portion of the 20th century there was an implicit assumption that economic growth was synonymous with progress: an assumption that a growing GDP meant life must...