The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...

The paper aims at comparing the formal and informal labour markets in the Central and Eastern European new EU Member States and candidate countries of the European Union. First, the current situation of the labour market is described, focusing on the recent developments since the breaking up of...

In this paper it is argued that with the creation of the Eurozone the national balances of payments have lost their function as monetary indicators. In contrast, the integration of goods and services markets into a single European market has not completely disentitled the national balances on...