The CIS region is of vital importance for the EU countries considering that both are interconnected through cooperation or membership in supranational political and economic institutions (OSCE, WTO, OECD, NATO, etc.), through transport and energy corridors, through investment, trade and...

The CIS countries' EU-related interests are very heterogeneous. The countries themselves differ not only in terms of their geopolitical and geo-economic situations, and how those affect their relations with the EU, but also in their levels of ambition in relation to the Union, as well as their...

In the 1990s, the CIS region experienced a painful transformation following the collapse of the USSR and the command economy. For the less developed republics of the former USSR, this process was even more dramatic as they lost subsidies from the Union's budget and some of them suffered...

The paper discusses the issue of labor force mobility in a broad sense, and analyses how changes in social security policy and the structure of the social safety net (SSN) affects different aspects of labor force mobility. The text is structured as follows: Introduction, then follows Chapter 2,...

The paper discusses possible directions and magnitudes of the relationship between the social security driven tax wedge, employment and shadow employment in Russia and Ukraine. The first section presents a summary of the economic and institutional background for development of the current size...

This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of...

The paper analyses economic inequality in Croatia in comparison with other transition economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe. It comprises a literature review and a descriptive analysis as well as an econometric modelling exercise. The main findings are the following Over the entire...

Seit dem Niedergang der sozialistischen Systeme in Osteuropa vor rund 20 Jahren ist der deutsch-polnische Grenzraum immer wieder ein Schauplatz grundlegender Veränderungen im politischen, gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Transformationsprozess und dem damit verbundenen Strukturwandel. Im...

Seit 2007 finanzieren Bund und Länder im Hochschulpakt Studienanfänger, die gegenüber dem Basisjahr 2005 zusätzlich an die Hochschulen kommen, gemeinsam. In die Berechnungen werden alle Anfänger an den Privathochschulen einbezogen, Geld gibt es aber nur in wenigen Ausnahmefällen. Im...