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 …

The rapid journey from central planning to EU (euro area) membership stress-tested the social learning processes of the … EU, spurred major reform waves and led to the very rapid introduction of best-practice institutions. Although social … institutions played a dominant role in shaping the transition process. Along with the EU accession process, the EU acted as a …