"Western Europe has welcomed its new members by shutting the door in the face of the workers coming from the East and making their road to EMU more difficult. Two years down the road of enlargement, some countries are now liberalizing worker flows. Indeed, as shown in this paper, these...

Am 1. Januar 2002 wurde mit der Einführung des Euro-Bargelds der finale Schritt auf dem Weg zur Europäischen Währungsunion vollzogen. Parallel verhandelte die Kommission bereits seit Jahren mit den mittel- und osteuropäischen Transformationsländern über deren künftigen Beitritt zur...

Der Bericht beinhaltet den Vortrag von Prof. Georg Milbradt anläßlich der ifo Jahresversammlung am 22. Juni 1995 in München. Thema ist der Aufholprozeß in Ostdeutschland und die daraus entstehenden Strategien für die Zukunft. Zunächst werden die Grundentscheidungen dargelegt, die seit der...

Im März 1998 fand eine Europakonferenz statt, auf der die ersten sechs Beitrittskandidaten zur EU ausgewählt wurden. In diesem Artikel werden die wirt-schaftlichen Vorraussetzungen, welche mit diesen Kandidaten abgesprochen wurden, aufgezählt und erörtert. In dem Text erwähnte Studien...

"This article explores the process of labour market integration in the border region of Saxony, Poland and the Czech Republic. The underlying understanding of integration is combining institutional factors and the behaviour of market players. The sources of this conceptual framework stem from...

"The years of transition in Central and Eastern Europe brought with them the unprecedented - in these societies - phenomenon of restructuring with dismissals and growing unemployment. Moreover with the emergence and development of the private sector, new enterprises started to leave former...

"The European Social Model (ESM) is increasingly becoming a model of integration policy. The idea is based on a combination of economic efficiency, in the sense of high productivity, competition and economic growth, and a high level of employment on the one hand together with social cohesion on...

"This paper uses a data set covering 9 EU15 member states and 7 candidate countries and new member states to compare inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that the level of migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states than in EU15 member states. Also in...

"In the United States powerful job gains have been achieved in the last 25 years. In contrast the number of jobs in the European Union has increased comparatively little. At the same time unemployment has grown in two phases in the European countries whereas it remained at a comparatively low...

"The management approach of management by objectives (MBO) is currently experiencing a renaissance in European labour market policy. This paper first recapitulates key conceptional principles of the management by objectives model and stresses the relevance of the moral hazard problem. Then there...