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 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 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...

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...

Die jungen Marktwirtschaften der Staaten Mittel- und Osteuropas streben nach der Mitgliedschaft in der Europäischen Union.Bereits im April 1998 werden erste Beitrittsverhandlungen mit fünf Ländern aus der Region beginnen. Die ökonomischeProblematik einer Integration der Reformländer in den...

Technology transfer and the so-called productivity spillover-effects are important aspects of foreign direct investments regarding their contribution to the long-term development potential of the host countries.The effects of the foreign direct investments on the foreign and domestic companies...

Die Anpassung der Systeme der sozialen Sicherung an die gewandelten wirtschaftlichen, demographischen und sozialen Verh??ltnisse stellt f??r die europ??ische Sozialpolitik im allgemeinen und f??r die Alterssicherung im besonderen eine gro??e Herausforderung dar. In den mittel- und...

This report has been requested by the European Commission from the OMAS Consortium (OMAS). It is based on a detailed analysis of (Monitoring and Assessment) documentation produced by OMAS from 1996 to 2001, in particular, summaries from the Country Assessment Reviews (CARs) in relation to the...

This report is one of a series of six Ad Hoc and Thematic Reports which the OMAS Consortium is preparing. Its objectives are, firstly, “to assist the Candidate Countries in meeting the short and medium term challenges for accession, through analysis of OMAS experience of Monitoring and...

This thematic report examines the extent to which Phare Programmes have achieved their Civil Society objectives. The purpose of the report is to providing a tool to support those responsible, in the Commission Services as well as in the 10 Candidate Countries (CC), for the design and...