After the collapse in the early years of transition, saving rates in many EU-accession countries have recovered and … savings. Is saving behaviour in EU-accession countries now driven by the same forces as it is in market economies? We use a …

After the collapse in early transition years, saving rates in Eastern European EU-accession countries have recovered … strongly. Is private saving in these countries now driven by the same forces as in the EU? A GMM estimator is applied to … substitutes. Long-run effects of income growth and public saving are larger in the EU than in the candidate countries, indicating …

need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later …

need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of …