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 …

empirical results are similar in qualitative but rather different in quantitative terms across EU countries. State dependence …

discrete hazard analysis is used and the duration dependence is captured with time dummies. In almost all the 14 EU Member …

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

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 …