While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising … grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old … Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to the labor markets. Visceral fear rendered more than one in …

or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes …

Intra‐EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra‐EU labour … migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is … with high levels of short term service mobility. Service mobility/posting is as much a phenomenon of intra‐EU15 mobility …

since self-employment is on the rise in many countries, particularly own-account self-employment. Drawing on EU-SILC data …

The Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages represents a watershed initiative adding substance to the EU's social dimension … how minimum wages and collective bargaining affect low pay. Using a time series cross-section of EU-SILC for income years …