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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States

Havlik, Peter - 2005

This paper provides an overview of longer-term structural developments in the new EU Member States from Central and Eastern Europe (NMS). It analyses structural changes in the NMS' economies and patterns of productivity catching-up both at macro level and within the individual industries. With...

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Structural Change, Productivity and Employment in the New EU Member States

Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005

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EU enlargement and the race to the bottom of welfare states

Skupnik, Christoph - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-21

After the introduction of the freedom of movement for Eastern European workers, EU-15 countries were expected to reduce public benefits in order to avoid becoming "welfare magnets". However, OECD data do not support the prediction of a race to the bottom in benefit levels. Using EU-LFS data, I...

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Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Developments in the New EU Member States

Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine; Ward, Terry - 2004

the EU 15 countries in terms of employment rates, employment patterns and unemployment. There are persistently high shares … of long-term unemployed, youth unemployment is twice as high as in the EU-15 and there are diverging trends in female and … lower in the other countries; but employment rates are very low (and, conversely, unemployment is high) for the low …

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Employment Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Geishecker, Ingo; Hunya, Gabor - 2005

The paper starts with a discussion of the development of the number of manufacturing sector jobs in the framework of economic transformation and industrial restructuring in Central and Eastern Europe. Over the past decade, domestically-owned manufacturing companies reduced the number employed...

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Employment Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe

Geishecker, Ingo; Hunya, Gabor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005

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Economic Restructuring and Labour Market Developments in the New EU Member States

Landesmann, Michael; Vidovic, Hermine; Ward, Terry - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2004

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Poor Marks for Germany's Isolationist Policy

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 30, pp. 209-215

The free movement of workers within the European Union does not place a burden on labor markets or social services. This is the conclusion of a recent study on the development and effects of east-to-west migration in the wake of EU enlargement in 2004 and 2007. In this light, Germany's...

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Schlechte Noten für deutsche Abschottungspolitik

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 26, pp. 422-429

Arbeitnehmerfreizügigkeit innerhalb der Europäischen Union führt nicht zu Belastungen des Arbeitsmarktes und der Sozialversicherungen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine aktuelle Forschungsarbeit über die Entwicklungen und Folgen der Ost-West-Migration nach den jüngsten Erweiterungsrunden der...

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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...

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