"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...

"This paper discusses free immigration to regulated labour markets (as in Europe) and to unregulated labour markets (as in the US), and explores the implications for migration flows of collective agreements, employment protection laws, product market regulations etc. It is argued that the...

Seit vier Jahrzehnten zählt die Brüsseler Wettbewerbspolitik zu den Vorzeigestücken der Europapolitik. Auf keinem anderen Feld hat die Europäische Kommission von Anfang an so weitreichende Befugnisse besessen und davon auch im Interesse des freien Spiels der Marktkräfte Gebrauch gemacht. In...