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of pension systems that followed EU accession leading to convergence with the EU policies. It also outlines the main …

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 …

Almost all non-EU CESEE countries have converged with Western Europe over the past three decades. However, the pace of … convergence has been mixed. For non-EU CESEE countries as a whole, convergence has generally developed at a slower pace than for … EU member states in the region.Econometrically, we find that the poorest countries tended to convergence more quickly …