Dieses Buch untersucht die Anpassungserfordernisse in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Die Systemwechsel in Polen, Ungarn, der slowakischen und der tschechischen Republik haben bislang nicht zu prosperierenden Volkswirtschaften geführt. Die Reformländer sind vom Einkommensniveau ihrer westlichen...

This paper analyses the expected changes in external tariffs and imports in Poland after accession to the European Union. We find that around 14% of all manufacturing commodity groups in the Harmonised System will experience tariff reductions of over 10 percentage points, while for agricultural...

The envisaged EU enlargement will lead to a redirection of Structural and Cohesion Funds expenditures from current to new EUmembers. This redistribution of funds makes the accession countries even more attractive as a location of FDI. Using a logistic regressions approach, this paper shows that...

This paper analyzes the evolution of regional unemployment rates, wages, participation rates, migration and employment in seven candidate countries for accession to the European Union (EU) in the 1990's. We compare these countries to a core set of EU member states and find persistent regional...