"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...

"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...

"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...

The current global financial and economic crisis has been spilling over to the Central and Eastern European coun-tries (CEECs). After several years of economic prosperity in most of these countries, activities of the real economy have slowed down. The crisis has reached the region on two tracks....

The economic recovery in the EU 15 in 2006 resulted in an acceleration of growth in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), particularly in the new EU member states of Central Europe. Helped by the recent massive inflows of FDI, these countries have become serious competitors on the...

Ausgehend von den Bevölkerungsprognosen der Vereinten Nationen sowie der nationalen Statistischen Ämter werden die Entwicklungen wichtiger demographischer Kennziffern für ausgewählte EU-Mitgliedsländer untersucht. Niedrige Geburtenziffern, Abwanderungen und der Anstieg in der...

Die Wirtschaftslage in Mittel- und Osteuropa ist nach wie vor sehr uneinheitlich. Eine deutliche Verbesserung wurde nur in den im Reformprozeß am weitesten fortgeschrittenen Ländern erreicht. Während Nachfrage und Produktion in Polen bereits seit etwa zwei Jahren zunehmen, setzte in diesem...

Es müssen schnell Maßnahmen gegen die anhaltende Abwanderung hochqualifizierter FuE-Fachkräfte eingeleitet werden. Als wirkungsvoll könnte sich zum Beispiel die Verlagerung von Forschungsvorhaben oder die Vergabe von Unteraufträgen an Forschungseinrichtungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa...