(EU) after the 1995 enlargement. Our main finding is that the relationship between bureaucratic independence and judiciary … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

. Considerable cross-country differences are observed across the EU regarding both the level and the structure of earnings inequality …

discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member … highlight the mechanisms that bring individuals into and out of poverty. -- poverty dynamics ; EU …

European Union (EU), had successfully completed negotiations and fulfilled all accession requirements, taken membership in the … European Economic Area (with full access to the Single Market), but decided in a referendum to reject full-fledged EU … politically driven economic benefits from EU membership: if Norway had joined the EU in 1995, productivity levels between 1995 and …

empirical results are similar in qualitative but rather different in quantitative terms across EU countries. State dependence … endogeneity bias. -- poverty dynamics ; EU ; ECHP …

European Union (EU) in the 1973, 1980s, 1995 and 2004 enlargements, if those countries had not joined the EU. We find large … positive effects from EU membership but these differ across countries and over time (they are only negative for Greece). We …

and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the … demographic events have a stronger effect in the EU‐SILC than the ECHP for poverty entries and weaker for poverty exits; e) The …

long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal … information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic material deprivation we use a three-step index of chronic cumulative …) longitudinal poverty. The results reveal considerable differences across EU countries regarding both the level and the structure of …

European Union (EU) enlargement, when all candidate countries joined the Single Market but one - Norway - did not join the EU …