This book provides a study on the impact of Brexit on international competitiveness and in doing so, presents a theoretical account of regional disintegration. In recent decades, the theory of regional economic integration has expanded following growing integration processes taking place not...

Europe enlarged its boundaries in 2004 with the accession of ten new member states to the European Union. The creation of an effective information society is seen as critical to the global competitiveness of Europe. Based upon detailed data collection and rigorous analysis, the book presents a...

The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union: Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment -- The Redistributive Impacts of Migration after the EU's Eastern Enlargement -- Migration in Italy is Backing the Old Age Welfare -- Migration 10 Years After: EU Enlargement, Closed...

The Eastern Enlargement of the EU will not be complete until the new member states join the EMU. Economic and political economy arguments point to fast EMU accession of new member states. Failure to do so will create a two speed Europe, a fundamental change in the economic and political...

This book's thirteen contributions bring together the results of recent research on determinants of regional specialization, growth, and convergence in the context of European integration. They offer fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on patterns of regional production structures,...

The Development Gap Between the CIS and EU -- East-West Integration: A Geographical Economics Approach -- Deep Integration with the EU: Impact on Selected ENP Countries and Russia -- Energizing EU-FSU Relations: Challenges and Opportunities -- The Motives and Impediments to FDI in the CIS --...

The enlargement of the European Union towards the East from May 2004 has generated an increase of about 100 million inhabitants in the EU population, and has especially brought along major challenges and important opportunities both for the 'new' countries and for the 'old' member states. That...

An Overview of the Main Issues and the Role of Structural Change -- Structural Change and Labour Reallocation Across Regions: A Review of the Literature -- Organized Labour and Restructuring: Coal Mines in the Czech Republic and Romania -- New Evidence on Spatial Convergence -- Labour...