EU Enlargement and the Labor Markets: What Do We Know? -- Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement -- Labor Mobility in the Enlarged EU: Who Wins, Who Loses? -- Post-Enlargement Migration and Public Perception in the European Union -- The Impact of Migration on Destination Labor Markets -- EU...

Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. EU Migration and the Economic Crisis: Concepts and Issues: Jean-Michel Lafleur and Mikolaj Stanek -- Chapter 2. From international migration to freedom of movement and back? Southern Europeans moving North in the era of retrenchment of freedom of movement rights:...

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 book explains the reasons for the recent economic success of Turkey by examining the transformation of the private sector and the development policies implemented by the Turkish government. Further concrete insights are provided by professionals working for institutional and business players...

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...

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,...

Overview -- Overview -- Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in an Enlarged EU: Opportunities and Challenges -- Evolving Pattern of Intra-industry Trade Specialization of the New Member States of the EU: The Case of the Automotive Industry -- FDI Spillovers in the Czech Republic: Takeovers Versus...

This study analyzes trade specialization patterns in the enlarged European Union with a special focus on the new EU member states and the cohesion countries. Empirical findings on revealed comparative advantage and a broader picture of competitiveness on the single market are presented from a...

This work examines the political economy of exchange-rate policies in the eastward expansion of the eurozone. Analysis shows that prospective members of the EMU are likely to pass on some costs of convergence to the current EMU members. The mechanism is an altered exchange-rate policy that...